Soren Kierkegaard Archives

("Abraham and Isaac" by William Blake, 1800)

Kierkegaard: The Responsible Philosopher?

Kierkegaard’s ambition is for the self to become itself—even if such a mode of existence will question the moral norms and values of society.

Haste becomes waste is intimately tied to the fact that many people have forgotten to inhabit their body, too eager to get somewhere else.

(Arisa Chattasa)

This isn’t about the salvation of the demoniac but an observation about the hope we can find in the demons which show up in our mundane lives.

Karl Ove Knausgaard often uses religious language in his fiction—but as religion recedes, does he think literature can create ecstatic experience?