Kierkegaard was also repulsed by the then dominant philosophy of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, with its focus on grand, abstract historical processes rather than on individual, concrete human beings. He was an eccentric maverick who found himself continually at odds with orthodox Christianity generally and the Danish State Church in particular. Although a Christian and a learned theologian, Kierkegaard was far from being an unquestioningly obedient member of the flock. His funeral was a lively affair, his followers protesting that the established Danish church had no right to take possession of, or to sermonise over, the body of a man who had so vehemently opposed it. Kierkegaard (whose name means ‘churchyard’ in Danish), died in Copenhagen aged just 42, possibly due to a paralysing spinal ailment caused by a fall from a tree in his youth. Here we’re going to briefly look at his concept of anxiety. But his radical views on faith, religious commitment and the individual, and his rejection of a conformist, passive, rationalist, dispassionate, inauthentic approach towards the religious life and the infinite, make him a true existentialist. Existentialism is undoubtedly as much rooted in Kierkegaard’s militant, idiosyncratic Christianity as it is in the ‘God is dead’ proto-existentialism of Arthur Schopenhauer and Friedrich Nietzsche.
Many of the central themes and concepts of existentialism – freedom, choice, responsibility, bad faith, anxiety, despair, and absurdity – originated in the writings of Søren Kierkegaard (1813-55), in such ground-breaking works as Either-Or (1843), Fear and Trembling (1843), The Concept of Anxiety (1844) and The Sickness Unto Death (1849). OL19708587W Page_number_confidence 80.38 Pages 262 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.15 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20211025093753 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 476 Scandate 20211021044537 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9781631490040 Tts_version 4.SUBSCRIBE NOW Existentialism & Life Kierkegaard: Young, Free & Anxious Gary Cox considers the problematic side of freedom, from the edge of a cliff. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 09:17:03 Associated-names Hannay, Alastair, editor, translator Boxid IA40272010 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier
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