A work of Christian existentialism, the book is about Kierkegaard's concept of despair, which he equates with the Christian concept of sin, particularly original sin.

While Kierkegaard's feeling of angst is fear of actual responsibility to God, in modern use, angst was broadened by the later existentialists to include general frustration associated with the conflict between actual responsibilities to self, one's principles, and others ( possibly including God ).

Although " prescriptions " against the possibly deleterious consequences of these kinds of encounters vary, from Kierkegaard's religious " stage " to Camus ' insistence on persevering in spite of absurdity, the concern with helping people avoid living their lives in ways that put them in the perpetual danger of having everything meaningful break down is common to most existentialist philosophers.

" As we must overcome levelling, Hubert Dreyfus and Jane Rubin argue that Kierkegaard's interest, " in an increasingly nihilistic age, is in how we can recover the sense that our lives are meaningful ".

The word " postscript " has, poetically, been used to refer to any sort of addendum to some main work, even if it is not attached to a main work, as in Søren Kierkegaard's book titled Concluding Unscientific Postscript.

As the work proceeded — and Kierkegaard's overcoming of Hegel's idealism is revealed to be a mere interiorization — Adorno excitedly remarks in a letter to Berg that he is writing without looking over his shoulder at the faculty who would soon evaluate his work.

“ In view of what is now threatening to engulf Europe ,” Horkheimer wrote, “ our present work is essentially destined to pass things down through the night that is approaching: a kind of message in a bottle ” As Adorno continued his work in New York with radio talks on music and a lecture on Soren Kierkegaard's doctrine of love, Benjamin fled Paris and attempted to make an illegal border crossing.

** Søren Kierkegaard's philosophical book Fear and Trembling is first published.

The story of the Wandering Jew is the basis of the essay, " The Unhappiest One " in Søren Kierkegaard's Either / Or ( published 1843 in Copenhagen ).

It is generally believed that Møller had a maieutic relationship with Kierkegaard, hence Kierkegaard's description of Møller as, “ the confidant of Socrates ”.

It is, amongst other things, a critique of Kierkegaard's triad of aesthetic, ethical and religious stages, and of his definition of truth.

In Kierkegaard's remark in Either / Or, that " patience cannot be depicted " visually, since there is a sense that any immediate moment of life may be fundamentally tedious.

Kierkegaard's challenge is for You to " discover a second face hidden behind the one you see " in yourself first, then in others.

The book is the first of Kierkegaard's works written pseudonymously, a practice he employed during the first half of his career.

Kierkegaard's Either / Or is God or the world.

Kierkegaard's deepest passion is not merely the ethical, not merely the ethical-religious, but the ethical-religious paradox ; it is Christianity itself, — such as this exhibits itself to his apprehension.

Furthermore, in the speech about marriage that is given in Kierkegaard's Either / Or, Kierkegaard attempts to show that it is because marriage is lacking in passion fundamentally, that the nature of marriage, unlike romance, is explainable by a man who has experience of neither marriage nor love.

In Volume 2 he says the following about Soren Kierkegaard: " It is not merely in name that this irony bears a fundamental resemblance to Kierkegaard's, which also aristocratically " chooses to be misunderstood ".

Kierkegaard's argument can be made clearer if one extracts the premise " I think " into two further premises:

* Either / Or, an influential philosophical text by Søren Kierkegaard, purports to be a collection of texts discovered and edited by Kierkegaard's pseudonymous author Victor Eremita.

It can be explained as Kierkegaard's way of working himself through the loss of his fiancee, Regine Olsen.

The story has strong parallels to Kierkegaard's relationship to Regine, and has often been taken to be a fictionalization of it.

In some ways, it can be seen as a precursor to Søren Kierkegaard's Either / Or or Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, where some even describe it as a " more incisive and decisive critique of metaphysics than that of Kant.

Kierkegaard was criticized by his former teacher and pastor Hans Lassen Martensen, he concludes from Kierkegaard's writing, here and in Concluding Unscientific Postscript, that he's saying an individual can be saved without the help of the Church.

Sartre was against Kierkegaard's view that God can only be approached subjectively.

Note however that Kierkegaard's meaning of " nihilism " differs from the modern definition in the sense that, for Kierkegaard, levelling led to a life lacking meaning, purpose or value, whereas the modern interpretation of nihilism posits that there was never any meaning, purpose or value to begin with.

Opponents of Kierkegaard's approach and neo-orthodoxy in general have termed this fideism, a blatant refusal to find support for the faith outside its own circles.

Bibfeldt's bibliography includes his doctoral thesis, " The Problem of the Year Zero "; his response to Kierkegaard's Either / Or, entitled Both / And, as well as the subsequent reconsideration Either / Or and / or Both / And ; and his argument for the Mesopotamian origins of baseball, The Boys of Sumer.

Regine sensed that Kierkegaard's ostensibly busy schedule was a pretence for avoiding her.

Regine, heartbroken, immediately went to Kierkegaard's house ; when he wasn't there, she left a note pleading for him not to leave her.

Regine's family reacted with a mixture of confusion, finding Kierkegaard's actions incomprehensible, to outright hatred for causing Regine such pain.

:" A more fruitful way of distinguishing between ideology and religion is to adapt Søren Kierkegaard's view that the essence of a religion is not the persuasion of the truth of the doctrine, but a leap of faith to accept a view which is inherently absurd .... Fascism ’ s essential syncretism meant that it was possible to find forms, which overtly married ideology and religion – for example, in the Iron Guard, or among a limited number of Italian and German clerics ( though most failed to see the radicalism at the core of fascism ).

His translations to Icelandic included On Liberty by John Stuart Mill, Søren Kierkegaard's Repetitions, Plato's Phaedo, Descartes ' Meditations, all of whom were published by the Icelandic Literature Society, for which he served as a series chief editor for almost two decades.

Christian existentialism relies on Kierkegaard's understanding of Christianity.

Another major premise of Christian existentialism involves Kierkegaard's conception of God and Love.

A quotation concerning Tarquin and the poppy allegory appears in Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling.

* Kierkegaard, Søren ( 1998 / 1854 ), The Moment and Late Writings: Kierkegaard's Writings, Vol.

* Kierkegaard, Søren ( 1978 / 1846 ), The Two Ages: Kierkegaard's Writings, Vol 14, ed.

* Kierkegaard, Søren ( 1995 / 1850 ), Works of Love: Kierkegaard's Writings, Vol 16, ed.

Analytic philosophy of religion has also been preoccupied with Ludwig Wittgenstein, as well as his interpretation of Søren Kierkegaard's philosophy of religion.

At the time, Kierkegaard's philosophy exerted a strong influence, chiefly through its claim to pose an alternative to Idealism and Hegel's philosophy of history.

In this work, Derrida interprets passages from the Bible, particularly on Abraham and the Sacrifice of Isaac, and from Søren Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling.

* The nature of religious experiences, e. g. Søren Kierkegaard's analysis of Abraham in Fear and Trembling, Problemata III, and in particular the mystic's realization of nonduality

Jacques Derrida also looks at the story of the sacrifice as well as Kierkegaard's reading in The Gift of Death.

They often debated the subjects of irony and humor, favorite topics of Kierkegaard's.

Kierkegaard's pseudonymous works begin with a preface.