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SOREN AABY See also:KIERKEGAARD (1813-1855)
, Danish philosopher, the seventh See also:child of a See also:Jutland hosier, was See also:born in See also:Copenhagen on the 5th of May 1813
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As a boy he was delicate, precocious and morbid in temperament
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He studied See also:theology at the university of Copenhagen, where he graduated in 1840 with a See also:treatise On See also:Irony
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For two years he travelled in See also:Germany, and in 1842 settled finally in Copenhagen, where he died on the 11th of See also:November 1855
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He had lived in studious retirement, subject to See also:physical suffering and See also:mental depression
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His first See also:volume, Papers of a Still Living See also:Man (1838), a characterization of Hans See also:Andersen, was a failure, and he was for some See also:time unnoticed
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In 1843 he published Euten—Eller (Either—or) (4th ed., 1878), the See also:work on which his reputation mainly rests; it is a discussion of the ethical and aesthetic ideas of See also:life
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In his last years he carried on a feverish agitation against the theology and practice of the See also:state See also: See his See also:posthumous autobiographical See also:sketch, Syns punktetfor See also:min Forfattervirksomhed (" Standpoint of my See also:Literary Work ") ; Georg Brandes, Soren See also:Kierkegaard (Copenhagen, 1877) ; A . Barthold, Noten zu K.'s Lebensgeschichte (See also:Halle, 1876), See also:Die Bedeutung der dsthetischen Schriften S . Kierkegaarde (Halle, 1879) and S . K.'s Personlichkeit in ihrer Verwirklichung der Ideate (See also:Gutersloh, 1886) ; F . Petersen, S . K.'s Christendomsforkyndelae (See also:Christiania, 1877) . For Kierkegaard's relation to See also:recent Danish thought, see See also:Hoffding's Archiv At' Geschichte der Philosophie (1888), vol. ii . |
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