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Selections from the Writings of Kierkegaard

Søren Kierkegaard

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Creditable as have been the contributions of Scandinavia to the cultural life of the race in well-nigh all fields of human endeavor, it has produced but one thinker of the first magnitude, the Dane, Sören Å. Kierkegaard[1]. The fact that he is virtually unknown to us is ascribable, on the one hand to the inaccessibility of his works, both as to language and form; on the other, to the regrettable insularity of English…

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  • AuthorSøren Kierkegaard
  • SourceProject Gutenberg #60333
  • Length85,616 words · 5h 42m of reading
  • Chapters28
  • DictionaryIncluded
  • CopyrightPublic domain in the United States
  • Source checked2026-08-21

Contents

28 chapters

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  1. 01PUBLISHED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS, AUSTIN
  2. 02Sam Houston
  3. 03Mirabeau B. Lamar
  4. 04INTRODUCTION I
  5. 05DIAPSALMATA[1
  6. 06IN VINO VERITAS (THE BANQUET)
  7. 07INTRODUCTION II
  8. 08PREPARATION
  9. 09IV
  10. 10A PANEGYRIC ON ABRAHAM
  11. 11PRELIMINARY EXPECTORATION
  12. 12PREPARATION FOR A CHRISTIAN LIFE
  13. 13THE INVITATION
  14. 14II
  15. 15THE PAUSE
  16. 16II
  17. 17THE FIRST PHASE OF HIS LIFE
  18. 18THE SECOND PHASE OF HIS LIFE
  19. 19THE INVITATION AND THE INVITER
  20. 20THE MORAL
  21. 21BY WAY OF INTRODUCTION
  22. 22DIAGNOSIS
  23. 23II
  24. 24III
  25. 25MODERN RELIGIOUS GUARANTEES
  26. 26WHAT SAYS THE FIRE-MARSHAL
  27. 27THE WEDDING CEREMONY
  28. 28A DOSE OF DISGUST WITH LIFE

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