Kierkegaard: A Biography

Hannay, Alastair

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“…I am absolutely no better than other people, and I have said so and have never said anything else. (Kirmmse, 1996, p. 124) Further details of Kierkegaard's life can be found in two recent biographies, one strong on Kierkegaard's thought (Hannay, 2001), the other particularly fascinating in its rich details concerning Kierkegaard's life (Garff, 2005).…”

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The psychologist as a poet: Kierkegaard and psychology in 19th-century Copenhagen.

Pind¹

2016

History of Psychology

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Psychology had an early start at the University of Copenhagen in the first half of the 19th century, where it was taught as the major part of a compulsory course required of all first-year students. Particularly important in the establishment of psychology at the university was Frederik Christian Sibbern, who was professor of philosophy from 1813 to 1870. Sibbern wrote numerous works on psychology throughout his career. In his first book on psychology, Sibbern expressed the view that the ideal psychologist should also be a poet. Søren Kierkegaard, Sibbern's student, was precisely such a poet-psychologist. Kierkegaard discussed psychology in many of his works, reflecting the gathering momentum of psychology in 19th-century Copenhagen, Denmark. The article brings out some aspects of Kierkegaard's poetic and literary-imaginative approach to psychology. In his opinion, psychology was primarily a playful subject and limited in the questions about human nature it could answer, especially when it came up against the "eternal" in man's nature. Kierkegaard had a positive view of psychology, which contrasts sharply with his negative views on the rise of statistics and the natural sciences. In the latter half of the 19th century, psychology turned positivistic at the University of Copenhagen. This left little room for Kierkegaard's kind of poetic psychology. (PsycINFO Database Record

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“…Kierkegaard’s major concern throughout his published works was to “protect religion from philosophy” (Hannay, 2001, p. 195). Increasingly, as the 19th century wore on, Kierkegaard would come to recognize another adversary of religion, namely the natural sciences.…”

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The psychologist as a poet: Kierkegaard and psychology in 19th-century Copenhagen.

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2016

History of Psychology

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“…For Kierkegaard, repetition is a slippery category—but, then, all of his categories are slippery, soaked in irony and doused with multiple meanings in various voices. In an unpublished work, Kierkegaard wrote that repetition in thought or action alone is, strictly speaking, impossible, so it needs to be understood as “a way of moving on, recreating the ideal perhaps, bringing it into being” (Hannay :198). This understanding receives complex elaboration in the landmark work Repetition: A Venture in Experimenting Psychology (Kierkegaard ), wherein, in his typical style, Kierkegaard writes under a pseudonym, crafts different voices, and blends biography, fiction, and philosophy in a way that can be maddeningly elusive for readers searching for a programmatic philosophy .…”

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Bringing Kierkegaard into anthropology: Repetition, absurdity, and curses in Fiji

Tomlinson

2014

American Ethnologist

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The Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard offers two concepts that can strengthen anthropological analyses of Christianity. The first is “repetition,” or the act of “recollecting forward,” which provides a model of transformation that depends neither on deep continuity nor on decisive break. The second is “absurdity,” the faithful but painful acceptance of paradox as irreducible to logical resolution, which challenges eudemonic understandings of Christianity as a religion oriented toward comfort and satisfaction. I demonstrate the usefulness of Kierkegaard's concepts through an analysis of indigenous Fijian Methodists’ interest in repeatedly engaging with curses from ancestors as a way to overcome them.

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“…For Kierkegaard, who frequently walked about town conversing with its inhabitants, this fact became devastatingly clear once his physique, his relationships, and his work became the objects of ridicule in the popular satirical magazine, The Corsair . As Alastair Hannay points out, ‘the pillorying which Kierkegaard provoked from The Corsair made him a social outsider on a scale that he could scarcely have anticipated.’ Numerous journal entries relate the lasting emotional impact of those brief months in The Corsair . This event, which Kierkegaard also describes personally as suffering a ‘martyrdom of laughter’, is sometimes used to dismiss Kierkegaard's comments on the press as reactionary or merely a prideful retaliation .…”

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A Coiled Spring: Kierkegaard on the Press, the Public, and a Crisis of Communication

Lappano

2014

The Heythrop Journal

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Kierkegaard: A Biography

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The psychologist as a poet: Kierkegaard and psychology in 19th-century Copenhagen.

The psychologist as a poet: Kierkegaard and psychology in 19th-century Copenhagen.

Bringing Kierkegaard into anthropology: Repetition, absurdity, and curses in Fiji

A Coiled Spring: Kierkegaard on the Press, the Public, and a Crisis of Communication

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