/lit/ - Literature

Early Kierkegaard is underrated

i don't know

>>18319448
find out then faggot

>>18319603
why don't you figure it out?

>>18319376
This song ruined the phrase "Either/Or" for me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtJFb_P2j48

>>18319376
I like Works of Love cause he dabs on retarded poets

>>18319376
Either/Or. That collection is a trip

I prefer Sickness Unto Death. Whenever I feel like shit, I read it and it helps me get a hold of myself. The fact that he was able to cover despair so thoroughly was amazing. He even split it into feminine and masculine despair. I'll never be able to understand how he managed accomplish that.

seducers diary, just that, its fucking top tier.

>>18320675
Which edition of Either/Or? It seems like the penguin classics ver. is abridged

>>18319643
What does he say?

>>18319376
Fear and Trembling

I love this nigga

>>18320693
He didn't tough himself at night, like you. FAG!

Fear and Trembling for me

>>18321764
Same

>>18319376
Gjentagelsen

>>18319376
Repetition

>>18321252
If you don’t have an ebook, Kierkegaard’s unabridged books are notoriously expensive and hard to get a hand on. I’d say the penguin version is good enough.

>>18322452
Gjesundheit

>>18322452

>>18319376
The signed Kierkegaard. Pseudonyms are just that, pseuds. Only made as conversation with the real deal.

>>18321255
Not OP, but he essentially calls out earthly love as being selfishness incarnate. Even the least selfish form of earthly love, the love of the family and the community, is just group-selfishness. In order for it exist, you have to keep others out, and any attempt at being selfless and sharing the love is considered a breach of the love. This is in contrast to love as defined by God, because God asks us to make no distinctions. As Jesus states in Luke 14:26, in your pursuit of God and God's form of love, "you must, by comparison, hate everyone else - your father and mother, wife and children, your brothers and sisters - yes even your own life." if you want to be a true disciple of Him. This doesn't mean that you aren't allowed to have those things, you just can't prioritize earthly love over Spiritual love. Love, as glorified by the poets, cannot be remedied with Spiritual love. But I'm only halfway through the book so I might be missing something. Its really good so far, though.

>>18321764
Same

Concluding unscientific postscript

>>18319376
He's the one bearable existentialist and not because of the Christianity

>>18319610
the center left is so fucking unbearable

>>18321781
How do I stop

>>18319610
>This song ruined the phrase "Either/Or" for me
I'm not even listening to it, just say Aut-Aut like educated people.

>>18323204
You don't stop, anon. You keep on going until it becomes second nature for you. You won't need to think about lifting yourself up, you'll lift yourself up automatically.

You may think that you're a weakling, but remember that Marcus Aurelius kept a diary and wrote in it everyday. He needed to remind himself to keep going. You never stop toughing yourself up bro, you never stop.

>>18321764
based nigga poster
Everytime someone makes a post with the word nigga I assume it is the same black guy posting on lit trying to subtly communicate to everyone that he is black. It’s always the same syntax with no capital letters and simple language. Am I right?

>>18323116
That’s not centre left that’s the liberal left.

>>18321252
I went with penguin. Admittedly I first started reading him pretty early and didn't do research into translations. That being said, I reread it often, especially the Diapsalmata.

>>18319610
Why would you show this to me

>>18319610
kek/kok

>>18319610
Have some real Kierkekino
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yoWSckkzCts

>>18323766
I’d bet big money this singer is a fan of Van Morrison

>>18319376
Either/or, his exposition on both types of lifes and on how we ought to live is truly brilliant, mastering the duality of life and making it a novel, is there any philosopher who holds a candle to Kierkegaard? Truly THE philosopher on the topic of identity

>>18323789
>both

Anon, I fear you've missed the point.

>>18323789
He’s really fkn good.
I’ve read him directly but haven’t found good commentary. Lots of shit commentary out there, yes.
Any recos /litbros?

>>18323026
This is what my Existentialism professor thought back when I was in college. She was an old hippie though, the only Continental specialist in an Analytic department.

>>18323783
Probably. They have a song that lifts the riff from Springsteen’s “I’m on Fire” so they definitely have an appreciation for boomer rock

>>18323810
fik I love that song too. saw an insanely hot girl sing along to it once and the image is seared in my mind

>>18323805
He is really good, if you want more Kierkegaard I recommend "The concept of anxiety" and if you want other philosopher I like the analects of Confucius. Its a travesty that we don't have more Kierkegaard commentary.

>>18323803
I should have phrased that better i meant both superficial lives (the aesthetic and the ethical) and how we ought to live (the religious/self sufficient life)

>>18323954
My man, there we go.

>>18323413
I ain't no nigga I is brown
I talk like thees to get karma on reddit you knaw what I be sayin dawg

>>18323264
I mean stop jacking off

>>18324287
oh.

>>18324280
Fuck off back to r*ddit then.

I'm reading him as a native speaker, and it's probably the best Danish I've ever read - highly poetic with a fantastic flow. (Quite) difficult, but not nonsensical. I wish more of our writers wrote like this.