Søren Kierkegaard’s theory of despair. In The Sickness Unto Death, the Danish philosopher posed a difficult question: Is despair an essential feature of human life? You’ve probably had the ...

The 19th-century Danish philosopher and theologian, Søren Kierkegaard, wrote on the meaning of individual choice in his ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

Søren Kierkegaard believed “there is a freedom in letting go of familiar, worldly ways of measuring a human life”. But his rejection of convention came at a cost. By Ray Monk “Kierkegaard,” ...

This is the first in a three-part series examining the theological ideas of Søren Kierkegaard through the work of three contemporary church critics. Kierkegaard’s work is notoriously difficult to ...

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 ...

Want to stay current with Arthur’s writing? Sign up to get an email every time a new column comes out. Almost nothing is worse, then, than realizing that your life itself has become boring. Perhaps ...