Born on May 5, 1813, Søren Aabye Kierkegaard was a tall-haired theologian who brought about a sea change in Christian thought by challenging state religion and breaking with philosophical traditions ...

Imagine an educated, affluent European in his late twenties, seemingly one of fortune’s favored, who suffers from crippling feelings of despair and guilt. For no apparent reason, he breaks up with the ...

At 94, Howard Hong knows more about Denmark’s most famous philosopher than anyone alive — or at least he has known it longer. Co-founder of the Howard V. and Edna H. Hong Kierkegaard Library here at ...

We live in a time when it seems that everything has a solution, yet certain ideas force us to pause. One of them comes from Søren Kierkegaard, a 19th-century author widely considered one of the ...

Plenty of young people may find Søren Kierkegaard relatable on the basis of his biography alone. He once dug himself into debt during a personal crisis by spending too much money on books and coffee.

People hate being bored. Researchers show that we will go to almost any length to avoid boredom. That can even include giving ourselves painful electrical shocks to stave off ennui—experiments have ...

According to the nineteenth-century Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855), the media ― his and ours ― violates the face-to-face scale on which human communication is meant to take place.

To forgive sins is wild, gratuitous folly. For someone really to forgive, they have to reconcile themselves to the offenses of the past and remain vulnerable to injury in the future. A constant ...

A: I use the girl on the train a lot. I’m on a train, a European train with compartments. A young girl enters and sits opposite me. She is blond, wearing a short-sleeved sweater, a short skirt. The ...