Cultural Reader

Karl Jaspers and Søren Kierkegaard are often grouped together under the banner of existentialism, yet their voices differ in tone, method, a...

Kierkegaard's concept of anxiety is closely related to his ideas about the human condition. He argues that anxiety is a fundamental aspe...

Absurdism is a philosophical position that argues that life is essentially meaningless, that it is impossible to rationally explain why life...

Repetition or On Repetition: A Psychological Experiment is a philosophical work by the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard , published unde...

A: The Socratic starting point  Kierkegaard begins chapter 1 of his Philosophical Fragments with the Socratic. In order to be able to build...

Philosophical Fragments or Philosophical Crumbs (in Danish: Philosophiske Smuler) is a major work in philosophy and theology, written by the...

The proposition that "existence precedes essence" is a central statement of Existentialism , which goes against the traditional p...

For Kierkegaard, in order to apprehend the absolute, the mind must radically empty itself of objective content. What supports this radica...

For Kierkegaard, true individuality is called selfhood. Becoming aware of our true self is our true task and endeavor in life—it is an et...

Many philosophers who initially read Kierkegaard, especially Johannes de Silentio's  Fear and Trembling , often come to the conclusio...

Is despair a merit or a defect? Purely dialectically it is both. If one were to think of despair only in the abstract, without reference ...

For Kierkegaard 's author, Vigilius Haufniensis, anxiety/dread/angst (depending on the translation and context) is unfocused fear. Ha...

Death is inevitable and temporally unpredictable. Kierkegaard believed that individuals needed to sincerely and intensely come to realize...