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Repetition (Danish: Gjentagelsen) is an 1843 book by Søren Kierkegaard, the book was published under the pseudonym Constantin Constantius to mirror its titular theme. . Constantin investigates whether repetition is possible, and the book includes his experiments and his relation to a nameless patient only known as the Young
Kierkegaard stressed the value of patience in expectancy when facing life situations in these two short essays.. He says to the single individual, "You may have heard how someone who had thoughtlessly frittered away his life and never understood anything but wasted the power of his soul in vanities, how he lay on his sick bed and the frightfulness of disease encompassed him and the singularly ...
Kierkegaard's Concluding Unscientific Postscript; Translated from the Danish by David F. Swenson, completed after his death and provided with introduction and notes by Walter Lowrie. Princeton, Princeton University Press, for American Scandinavian foundation, 1974, c1941. The Kierkegaard Reader; edited by Jane Chamberlain and Jonathan R‚e.
Kierkegaard published Two Upbuilding Discourses three months after the publication of his book Either/Or, which ended without a conclusion to the argument between A, the aesthete, and B, the ethicist, as to which is the best way to live one's life. Kierkegaard hoped the book would transform everything for both of them into inwardness. [1]
Volume 1: Kierkegaard and the Bible, edited by Lee C. Barrett and John Stewart Tome I: The Old Testament (June 2010) Tome II: The New Testament (July 2010) Volume 2: Kierkegaard and the Greek World, edited by John Stewart and Katalin Nun Tome I: Socrates and Plato (January 2010) Tome II: Aristotle and Other Greek Authors (January 2010)
[52] Kierkegaard had just gone through an argument with the spirit of the age in Repetition. In 1848 Kierkegaard wrote in his diary: When one realizes that one's life is a regress instead of a progress, and that this is the very property, just the thing one is working for, for God with all his wisdom, then one can talk to no one.
The third part deals with the concept of the abstract and the concrete examples. Kierkegaard wrote of individuals known only as A and B in his first book, Either/Or. He then made them less abstract by making A into the Young Man in Repetition (1843) and B into his guide, the
Søren Aabye Kierkegaard (/ ˈ s ɒr ə n ˈ k ɪər k ə ɡ ɑːr d / SORR-ən KEER-kə-gard, US also /-ɡ ɔːr /-gor; Danish: [ˈsɶːɐn ˈɔˀˌpyˀ ˈkʰiɐ̯kəˌkɒˀ] ⓘ; [1] 5 May 1813 – 11 November 1855 [2]) was a Danish theologian, philosopher, poet, social critic, and religious author who is widely considered to be the first Christian existentialist philosopher.