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Intro -- Contents -- 1 Existence and Education -- 1.1 Introduction: Why Kierkegaard Matters to Education -- 1.2 Kierkegaard's Life and Works: Between Aestheticism, Duty and Faith -- 1.3 Stages of Existence -- 1.4 The Limits of Systematic Knowledge -- 2 Authenticity as Ideal and Idol -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Becoming Oneself -- 2.3 Self-choice and Autonomy -- 2.4 Modes and Failures of Self-realization -- 2.5 Authenticity in Education -- 3 Self-Cultivation and Its Discontents -- 3.1 Introduction: The Classical Notion of Bildung -- 3.2 Kierkegaard and Bildung -- 4 Dialogue and Indirect Communication -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Challenges for Existential Education -- 4.3 Irony, Dialectics and Maieutics -- 4.4 Concepts and Practices of Indirect Communication -- 5 Needs and Dangers of Ambitious Educational Ideals -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Existential Education as Impractical or Elitist? -- 5.3 Against Education? -- 5.4 Conclusion -- References.

"Why I so much prefer autumn to spring is that in the autumn one looks at heaven--in the spring at the earth."--Søren Kierkegaard. The father of existentialism, Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) was a philosopher who could write like an angel. With only a sentence or two, he could plumb the depths of the human spirit. In this collection of some 800 quotations, the reader will find dazzling bon mots next to words of life-changing power. Drawing from the authoritative Princeton editions of Kierkegaard's writings, this book presents a broad selection of his wit and wisdom, as well as a stimulating introduction to his life and work. Organized by topic, this volume covers notable Kierkegaardian concerns such as anxiety, despair, existence, irony, and the absurd, but also erotic love, the press, busyness, and the comic. Here readers will encounter both well-known quotations ("Life must be understood backward. But then one forgets the other principle, that it must be lived forward") and obscure ones ("Beware false prophets who come to you in wolves' clothing but inwardly are sheep--i.e., the phrasemongers"). Those who spend time in these pages will discover the writer who said, "my grief is my castle," but who also taught that "the best defense against hypocrisy is love."Illuminating and delightful, this engaging book also provides a substantial portrait of one of the most influential of modern thinkers. Gathers some 800 quotations Drawn from the authoritative Princeton editions of Kierkegaard's writings Includes an introduction, a brief account and timeline of Kierkegaard's life, a guide to further reading, and an index"--

A small, insignificant-looking intellectual with absurdly long legs, Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) was a veritable Hans Christian Andersen caricature of a man. A strange combination of witty cosmopolite and melancholy introvert, he spent years writing under a series of fantastical pseudonyms, lavishing all the splendor of his magnificent mind on a seldom-appreciative world. He had a tragic love affair with a young girl, was dominated by an unforgettable Old Testament father, fought a sensational literary duel with a popular satiric magazine, and died in the midst of a violent quarrel with t

Søren Kierkegaard was one of the most important European philosophers of the nineteenth-century and is widely regarded as the founder of existentialism. His work had a profound influence on some of the main intellectual currents of the last two centuries. Clearly and thematically structured, with investigations into a host of Kierkegaard's key conceptsGÇöincluding 'immediacy', 'sin', 'despair', 'individuality' and 'the crowd'GÇöand with references to a wide range of his works, Starting with Kierkegaard provides the reader with a balanced overview of the Danish philosopher's project, paying as

Tracing a path through Kierkegaard's writings, this book brings the reader into close contact with the texts and purposes of this remarkable 19th century Danish writer and thinker. Kierkegaard writes in a number of voices and registers: as a sharp observer and critic of Danish culture, or as a moral psychologist, and as a writer concerned to evoke the religious way of life of Socrates, Abraham, or a Christian exemplar.In developing these themes, Mooney sketches Kierkegaard's Socratic vocation, gives a close reading of several central texts, and traces 'The Ethical Sublime' as a recurrent theme

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Sigla -- Introduction: Kierkegaard's Mission -- Kierkegaard's Account of His Activity as a Writer -- Leading Concepts in Kierkegaard's Approach to Mission -- Part One: The Psychological Framework -- 1. Human Nature -- Aristotle and Anti-Climacus -- Despair -- Spirit -- Deviations from Spirit: The Forms of Despair -- Features of Human Nature Uncovered in the Exploration of Despair -- 2. Character -- A Self without Character -- Kierkegaard and Classical Ethics -- Character -- Kierkegaard on Character -- 3. Flight from Character -- Character and Psychological Well-being -- Categories Governing the Aesthetic Sphere -- The Aesthete's Life-Project -- The Discipline of Forgetting and Remembering -- The Discipline of Poetization -- Failure -- 4. Virtues -- Virtue, Character, and the Self -- Some Features of Virtues According to Judge William -- An Incisive Comment by Johannes Climacus -- Wisdom -- Not Virtue but Faith -- The Question of "Virtue Ethics" -- Existential Virtue Ethics -- 5. Sin -- A Pattern of Thought in Kierkegaard's Writings -- Sin and Psychology -- Sin, Despair, and Anxiety -- Sin and Sinfulness -- Sin and Virtues -- 6. Passions and Thoughts -- Thinking and Living -- Passions as Concerns and Passions as Emotions -- Emotions as Shaped by Thought -- Emotions as Aspect Perceptions -- Deceptive Feelings and Feelings without Depth -- Thought against Passion -- 7. Understanding and Rhetoric -- Kierkegaard as an Essential Author -- Authorship as Christian Mission -- Knowledge and Understanding -- Socrates on Moral Knowledge -- Understanding as Intrinsic to Virtues -- Kierkegaard's Rhetoric -- Part Two: Features of Christian Character -- 8. Joy -- Joy and Virtue -- "My" Reader -- The "Intentionality" of Joy.

This textbook is a compilation of central and representative texts taken from the German Søren Kierkegaard Edition. This first volume contains texts from Kierkegaard's literary legacy drawn from the first three volumes of the German Søren Kierkegaard Edition.