/lit/ - Literature

When will people realize he's the greatest thinker and writer of the last two hundred years?

teleological

>Denmark

>>13541449
The self is distinct from the mind; the self is composed of both mind and body, regardless of whatever gnostics or consciousness uploaders will tell you.

>>13426842
Tear up the streets with my homeboy

>>13374769
The self as a relation between itself and its own self, or as that which relates itself to itself in the relation, not a third term as a negative unity but as a positive third term

relate yourself to yourself in the relation, transparently grounded in the Power that constituted you

>>13356383
me too, olsen

>>13321637
While >>13322170 isn't wrong, I'll offer a different perspective.
Kierkegaard saw himself as no philosopher nor theologian nor reformer, but as a simple poet with no authority--authority to reform the church. Kierkegaard's one great concern, the concern that motivated his every act, the point towards which all his earlier works (Either/Or, Fear and Trembling, etc.) were merely a preparation, was to attack the Established Church. He was influenced by Luther, but saw himself as no Luther-esque reformer; he was not at that level, without authority as he was. His job was to be a proto-reformer, to call out the vanity of the church without offering a concrete replacement. Naturally, then, his philosophy and theology are centered on the individual's existence before God, since he saw the church and the priests as unfit to mediate that relationship. They had all gone out of the way, they had all become corrupted; Hegelianism's specter lurked in every pastor's shadow. The church no longer witnessed for Truth but had fallen into complacency. It taught comfort though Christ came not to bring peace but a sword. In short, Kierkegaard aims to do nothing but disturb the ecclesiastical order of his day, and disturb the individual from his dogmatic stupor into a radical new relationship with the Almighty. In short, Kierkegaard should be summarized in his own words:
>I comprehended that it was my task to make difficulties everywhere.

>>13174634
it's a negation of Kierkegaard

>>13152225
why do you assume there isn't

Religiously

Soren Kierkegaard literally means Sore Churchyard or Serious Graveyard.

>>13034704
>As loudly as here is indicated (I say 'indicated', for in fact I constantly tone down the note to the humble admission), so loudly must the note be struck, if there is to be any seriousness and sense and character and truth in making a protest against the Established Church and wishing to reform it.
>In case now anyone among us dares to step out ethically in the role here indicated, appealing moreover as an individual to a direct relationship with God, then I shall instantly (so it is I understand myself at this instant, but I cannot even know whether the next instant I may not be deprived even of the conditions for being able to do it, the next instant, perhaps while I am getting this published), I shall instantly be at his service, by undertaking what before God I shall understand as my task. This task of mine will be to follow him, the Reformer, step by step, never budging from his side, to see if step by step he is in the true character of his role, is actually the Extraordinary...
>No, if there is no such man among us, let us stick to the Established Church; let us enter into ourselves, let each one for himself admit how far behind we are in Christianity, but Thou, O my God, wilt preserve me from making things even worse by wanting mendaciously to carry out a reform.
From "The Moral" to "Christ as the Pattern," Lowrie's translation, pg. 218-19 of my edition. Unpublished during Kierkegaard's lifetime.

>>12973713
>If a woman in her distress were to have the idea that she would give birth to a monstrosity or were to ponder just what would be born to her, she would have a certain similarity to you.
oof Kierk that hurts

>>12962406
He means he never danced with the Danes

>>12922367
Infinite Jest

>>12919680
My nonfiction masterwork is a commentary of the Book of Mormon. 70k words into it right now, will be done at 250k.
After I'm done I'm going to write my novel, which is going to be The Stranger but replacing Meursault with not!Kierkegaard and breaking off his engagement instead of shooting an Arab, subsequently being subjected to a Job-esque trial and questioning by his friends.
>>12919769
very based
>>12919680
cringe but redpilled
>>12919751
Daddy issues?
>>12919932
too undeveloped to rate yet
>>12919986
A real history is well-needed but almost impossible to deliver. Like Mozart's Don Giovanni, 4chan represents infinite esthetic freedom, and as such music and not the written word is its true form.

>>12763211
you know his name

>>12732781
did somebody say fear and trembling?

This is now a Kierkegaard thread.

>>12641131
You say that like there's only one of me

>>12517544
>all philosophers
you sure about that?
>especially analytic philosophers
this, however, I am sure of