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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.
David F. Swenson, a professor at the University of Minnesota, introduced three lectures about Kierkegaard in 1918 in which he "presented Soren Kierkegaard’s delineation of three fundamental modes of life: First, the Life of Enjoyment – Folly and Cleverness in the Pursuit of Pleasure; second, the Life of Duty – Realizing the Self through ...
Many of Kierkegaard's earlier writings from 1843 to 1846 were written pseudonymously. In the non-pseudonymous The Point of View of My Work as an Author, he explained that the pseudonymous works are written from perspectives which are not his own: while Kierkegaard himself was a religious author, the pseudonymous authors wrote from points of view that were aesthetic or speculative.
Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen (1848-1895) recognized Georg Brandes article on Soren Kierkegaard, as well as The Corsair in his March, 1888 article Scandinavian Literature in The Chautauquan. He notes that both Either/Or and Stages on the Path of Life had already been translated into German by that time.
Soren Kierkegaard, Journals and Papers V 5948 (Pap. VII A 176) 1846 p. 367-368 Upbuilding Discourses in Various Spirits , 1847, Hong David F. Swenson translated many of Kierkegaard's works into English and helped introduce him to the English reading public as early as 1916.
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]
Either/Or (Kierkegaard book), an 1843 book by Søren Kierkegaard; Either/Or (Batuman novel), a 2022 novel by Elif Batuman; Either/Or, a 1997 album by Elliott Smith; Either/Or, a 1999 British comedy game show written and presented by Simon Munnery; either...or and neither...nor, examples of correlative conjunctions in English
The book discusses in detail notions like "leap of faith" (or, to be more precise, "leap to faith") and "indirect communication".In other words, Kierkegaard emphasizes the idea that belief in God cannot and should not be rational in the sense that it cannot possibly be proved conclusively that God exists or that Christianity is true.