Søren Kierkegaard: a biography

PART ONE. 1813-1834. The little fork

Warping

Soren sock

Two weddings and a fire

Studiosus severinus

Alma mater

Underground Copenhagen

The black sheep

1835. The still voices of the dead

The summer of 1835 in Gilleleje

"To find the idea for which I am willing to live and die"

1836. "A somersault into the Siberia of freedom of the press"

Within the Heibergs' charmed circle

Studiosus faustus

The battle between the old and the new soap-cellars

Poul Martin Moller

"Sketches of moral nature" - affectation and self-deception

"Backstage practice"

1837. Storm and stress?

Maria

Bringing gloom to rented rooms

"Dear Emil!! You, my friend, the only one"

Reading binge

1838. "There is an indescribable joy"

Death of a merchant

"The great earthquake"

From the papers of one still living

1839. The rich young man

The translator

"My reading for the examinations is the longest parenthesis"

A dandy on a pilgrimage

PART TWO. 1840. Regine - in memoriam

Miss O.

From the papers of one already dead

The time of terrors

"She chooses the shriek, I choose the pain"

1841. On the concept of irony

1842. Stark naked in Berlin

"The aesthetic is above all my element"

The incidental tourist

1843. Either/Or

"A monster of a book"

Literary exile

Spiritual eroticism

Regine's nod

Berlin again

Repetition

"Long live the post horn!"

To become oneself again is to become someone else

Reality intervenes

1:50

The retracted text

Fear and trembling

Abraham and the knife: Agnete and Farinelli

"A crevice through which the infinite peeped out"

1844. The concept of Anxiety

Captivating anxiety - pages from a seducer's textbook

The seduction's diary

Oh, to write a preface

Reviews

Israel Levin

"Come over and see me for a bit"

To have faith is always to expect the joyous, the happy, the good

1845. "Big enough to be a major city"

"I came close to dancing with them"

"People bath"

"Yes, of course, I am an aristocrat-"

"I think Grundtvig is nonsense"

Kierkegaard in church

"People think I'm a hack writer"

Stages on Life's Way

The inserted passages

Writing Samples

Exit Heiberg

Postscript: Kierkegaard

PART THREE. 1846. Victor Eremita's admirers

The Corsair - "a devil of a paper"

Comic composition and Goldschmidt's flashy jacket

"I am a Jew. What am I doing among you?"

Malice in a Macintosh: Peder Ludvig Moller

"A visit to Soro"

"Would only that I might soon appear in The corsair"

The Corsair's Salvo

Moller's postscript to Kierkegaard's Postscript

Admiration and envy: when one word leads to another

The Squint-Eyed Hunchback

The great reversal

"The school of abuse"

The Neighbors across the Way

"S.Kjerkegaard and his reviewers"

"This sweat-soaked, stifling cloak of mush that is the body"

The bull of Phalaris

"What does the physician really know?"

"For I have loved my melancholia"

Adolph Peter Adler

The Book on Adler

"Confusion-making of the highest order"

Saint Paul and carpetmaker Hansen

Exaltation: 7-14-21; 7-14-21; 7-14-21

"The sensual pleasure of productivity"

Graphomania

Rad. Valerianae

1847. "Perhaps you would also like me to listen to your brain beating?"

The press: "The government's filth machine"

To travel is to write - and vice versa

"The air bath"

Either and Or

Regine Schlegel

"A people's government is the true image of hell"

"This is the idea of the religious"

"1000,000 rumbling nonhumans"

"Perhaps the alarm will be sounded in the camp and I will be the manhandled victim"

"You are expecting a tyrant, while I am expecting a martyr"

God hates pyramids

Liberty, equality, and mercy

From the financial papers of one still living

Money in books

"Year after year, at my own expense"

PART FOUR. 1848. Extravagance in the service of the idea

"Copenhagen is a very filthy town"

The Sickness unto Death

"To poetize God into something a bit different"

"The poetry of eternity"

To publish or not to publish

The Point of View for My Work as an Author

"What hasn't this pen been capable of...?"

"But then, of course, I cannot say 'I' "

In charge of his own posthumous reputation

"My father died - then I got another father in his place"

"I am regarded as a kind of Englishman, a half-mad eccentric

1849. Dedications and a rebuff

Martensen's Dogmatics

A Sunday in the Athenaeum

Rasmus Nielsen

Fredrika Bremer's report card

Kierkegaard's dream

The sealed letter to Mr. and Mrs. Schlegel

"Come again another time"

Jakob Peter Mynster

"When I look at Mynster-"

Two Ethical-Religious Essays

The will to powerlessness

The ventriloquist who said "I"

The poet of martyrdom: the martyrdom of the poet

"Dr. Exstaticus"

1850. Eight ways not to say good-bye

Moving days

Practice in Christianity

"Blasphemous toying with what is holy"

The idiot God - and his times

The voices of the scandalized

"And why, then, this concealment?"

1851. "That line about Goldschmidt was fateful"

Kierkegaard in the citadel church

Fan mail

The dedication to regine

A theological village idiot

1852. "She came walking as if from the lime kiln"

The final apartment

1853. A Life in the Underworld

Nielsen: a demonic scoundrel

"One day I saw the corpse bus come"

"The prices must be jacked up in the salon"

S.A. versus A.S.

"Christianity is the invention of Satan

PART FIVE. 1854.The death of a witness to the truth

"-That is how a witness to the truth is buried!"

"To bring about a catastrophe"

A devil of a witness to the truth"

1855. "My opponent is a glob of snot"

Virginie and Regine - to lose what is most precious

"Quite simply: I want honesty"

"Therefore, take the pseudonymity away"

The Moment

"Then that poet suddenly transformed himself"

Out with inwardness!

"The pastor - that epitome of nonsense cloaked in long robes!"

The death of God

Grundtvig's rejoinder

"Pastor P. Chr. Kierkegaard, Lic. Theol., my brother"

"In a theater, it happened that"

"Come listen, brilliant bastard son"

"You dine with the swine"

Patient No. 2067

Postmortem

A little corpse with nowhere to go

The will, the auctions, and a psychopathic missionary

The papers no one wanted

Peter Christian's misery

The woman among the graves.