Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard had many opinions on life, religion, and love. One of his quotes explains how everyone ...

Few philosophers have explored the complexities of human existence as deeply as Søren Kierkegaard. Widely regarded as the father of existentialism, the Danish thinker spent much of his life examining ...

It is often claimed that relativism, subjectivism and nihilism are typically modern philosophical problems that emerge with the breakdown of traditional values, customs and ways of life. The result is ...

As a role model for future generations of angsty, overwrought people, Søren Kierkegaard does not disappoint. The “father of existentialism” puzzles us with philosophical texts, disorients us with his ...

Joakim Garff’s justly acclaimed biography of Kierkegaard, published in English in the year marking the 200th anniversary of the birth of Hans Christian Andersen, invites us into the literary world of ...

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 ...

William James liked to quote Søren Kierkegaard’s famous assertion that “we live forward, but we understand backwards.” Kierkegaard, the great Danish philosopher of subjectivity, would have been two ...

For Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855), anxiety is “a kind of horror at an undefined possibility, a terrifying presentiment of some unknown but possible peril”; this captures what many of us are feeling in ...