/lit/ - Literature

>>16466799

Kiekergaard. If you understood Kierkergaard you understood him too quickly.

I'M ABOUT TO HAVE AN ORGASM

It is not a joke. I've been looking for a digital version of the complete kierkegaard journals for ages (they're expensive as fuck) but I only found selections. Now, somehow, someone uploaded the volumes of Kierkegaard's journals, the seven fucking volumes.

Get'em now. You know you want him.

START BEING A SELF

>start being a self

>If there were no eternal consciousness in a man, if at the bottom of everything there were only a wild ferment, a power that twisting in dark passions produced everything great or inconsequential; if an unfathomable, insatiable emptiness lay hid beneath everything, what would life be but despair?

What did he mean by this?

Christ almighty, /lit/ is full of pretentious kids. I swear, it was bad in 2013 but coming back to this board, it's like the average age dropped by like 3 years.

>>7489094
AND THE MACHINE IS BLEEDING TO DEATH

According to Kierkegaard, constantly rotating your aesthetic interests to avoid boredom will eventually lead to despair because all activities, no matter how unique or new, will eventually become boring. He compares it to crop rotation in agriculture when, over time, the nutrients in the soil run out.

>A consequence of the rotation method would be the aesthete's lack of commitment to any one thing.

Isn't it possible to commit yourself to the process of rotation itself and derive your sense of meaning from constantly improving your taste and discovering new aesthetic experiences and different perspectives to view those same experiences from?

Please explain this Kierkegism to me:

Either there is an absolute duty toward God, and if so it is the paradox here described, that the individual as the individual is higher than the universal and as the individual stands in an absolute relation to the absolute/or else faith never existed, because it has always existed.

Who is the most handsome philosopher?