Søren Kierkegaard: A Biography

Content: I. 1813-1834 --
The little fork --
Warping --
Soren sock --
Two weddings and a fire --
Studiosus Severinus --
Alma Mater --
Underground Copenhagen --
The black sheep --
II. 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\" --
III. 1836 --
\"A somersault into the Siberia of freedom of the press\" --
Within the Heibergs\' charmed circle --
Studiosis Faustus --
The battle between the old and new soap-cellars --
Poul martin Moller --
\"Sketches of oral nature\" --
affectation and self-deception --
\"Backstage practice\" --
IV. 1837 --
Storm and stress? --
Maria --
Bringing gloom to rented rooms --
\"Dear Emil!! My friend, the only one\" --
Reading binge --
V. 1838 --
\"There is an indescribable joy\" --
Death of a merchant --
\"The great earthquake\" --
From the papers of one still living --
VI. 1839 --
The rich young man --
The translator --
\"My reading for the examinations is the longest parenthesis\" --
A dandy on pilgrimage --
VII. 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\" --
VIII. 1841 --
On the concept of irony --
IX. 1842 --
Stark naked in Berlin --
\"The aesthetic is above all my element\" --
The incidental tourist --
X. 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\" --
XI. 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. XII. 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 --
XIII. 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. Valeriana --
XIV. 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\" --
\"100,000 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.\" XV. 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\" --
XVI. 1849 --
Dedications and a rebuff --
Martensen\'s Dogmatics --
A Sunday in the Athenaeum --
Rasmus Neilsen --
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\" --
XVII. 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?\" --
XVIII. 1851 --
\"That line about Goldschmidt was fateful\" --
Kierkegaard in the Citadel Church --
Fan mail --
The dedication to Regine --
A theological village idiot --
XIX. 1852 --
\"She came walking as if from the Lime Kiln\" --
The final apartment --
XX. 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\" --
XXI. 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\" --
XXII. 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.