/lit/ - Literature

Anyone else feel an odd connection with certain philosophers, like they sort of "get" you? I feel this way about Kierkegaard a lot, he seems like he struggled with a lot of the stuff that keeps me awake at night too.

>name translates to "graveyard"
>is a sad person who is very depressed
What did he mean by this?

I just finished reading Fear and Trembling, and believe I understood most of it, but I have a couple of questions:

Kierkegaard makes fairly constant references to Hegel's work, which I've not read more than a summary of. Will a proper reading of Hegel's work (which I plan to do at some point, though the famous difficulty keeps me putting it off) add anything to the reading of Kierkegaard's work? I feel I reasonably understand the concepts of the universal ethical and aesthetic (and Kierkegaard's addition of the religious), and the way Kierkegaard places a relationship with God above and outside the dialectic, but I wonder if there's nuance I'm still missing.

Further, which works are necessary to understand the differences between Kierkegaard's real opinion those of Johannes? I'm planning on reading The Sickness Unto Death and Either/Or, but of course they're also written under pseudonyms, so I was wondering which books (by Kierkegaard or others) would help shed light on his actual thoughts (or if the contrast and agreements between his pseudonyms would show his actual thoughts).

>>10805727
Haha, cute

When Kierkegaard talks about people living within the ethical self, is he just describing normies as we would understand them today?

>muh paradoxes

What was the best Problemata?

>Since Kierkegaard was raised as a Lutheran, he was commemorated as a teacher in the Calendar of Saints of the Lutheran Church on 11 November and in the Calendar of Saints of the Episcopal Church with a feast day on 8 September.
What are you gonna do for Saint Kierkegaard's Day this year /lit/?

What is his funniest work?

Is there a case to be made that some philosophers' work is painted by their mental illness?
For example, do you believe that Kierkegaard's philosophy is a result of depression?

Where to start with this chad?

SK

>>10625207
>Sore Anus

What is the best order to read Kierkegaard?

The man himself.

Do you guys ever feel frustrated at how much you want to read and how little time you have?

Pic somewhat related

No. But in some instances, the ethical considerations may be suspended altogether in pursuit of a higher purpose.

>>10322433
Heh, nice try

Do you pseuds read anything published in the 21st century? Stop being hipsters and live in the present, the philosophers you like to jerk yourself off for understanding would recommend the same.

You may not like it, but this is what peak philosophy looks like. Hegel is also an acceptable answer.

>>10257637
Fear and Trembling.

Literal embodiment of Chaotic Good coming through

Kierkegaard's "The Sickness Unto Death"

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When immediacy is assumed to have self-reflection, despair is somewhat modified; there is somewhat more consciousness of the self, and therewith in turn of what despair is, and of the fact that one’s condition is despair; there is some sense in it when such a man talks of being in despair: but the despair is essentially that of weakness, a passive experience; its form is, in despair at not wanting to be oneself.

The progress in this case, compared with pure immediacy, is at once evident in the fact that the despair does not always come about by reason of a blow, by something that happens, but may be occasioned by the mere reflection within oneself, so that in this case despair is no a purely passive defeat by outward circumstances, but to a certain degree is self-activity, action. Here there is in fact a certain degree of self-reflection, and so a certain degree of observation of oneself. With this certain degree of self-reflection begins the act of discrimination whereby the self becomes aware of itself as something essentially different from the environment, from externalities and their effect upon it. But this is only to a certain degree. Now when the self with a certain degree of self-reflection wills to accept itself, it stumbles perhaps upon one difficulty or another in the composition of the self.

For as no human body is perfection, so neither is any self. This difficulty, be it what it may, frightens the man away shudderingly. Or something happens to him which causes within him a breach with immediacy deeper than he has made by reflection. Or his imagination discovers a possibility which, if it were to come to pass, would likewise become a breach with immediacy.