Søren Kierkegaard
The father of existentialism, Kierkegaard attacked Hegel's system and the established Danish church with passionate irony and indirect communication. Either/Or, Fear and Trembling, and The Sickness Unto Death explore the leap of faith, anxiety, and authentic selfhood. He wrote many works under pseudonyms representing different stages of existence.
Works
- Either/OrPhilosophical work contrasting aesthetic, ethical, and religious ways of existence
- Fear and TremblingPhilosophical work on faith, paradox, and individual commitment to the absurd
- The Concept of AnxietyPsychology of subjectivity exploring fear, freedom, and human becoming
- The Sickness Unto DeathAnalysis of despair as spiritual sickness and loss of authentic selfhood
- Concluding Unscientific PostscriptMajor work reconciling philosophical objectivity with religious subjectivity
- RepetitionPhilosophical work on paradox, difference, and recurrence in existence