The series begins with Søren Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling (1843), an exploration of faith through the story of Abraham and Isaac.Like most of Kierkegaard’s published work, Fear and Trembling ...

Thomas Carlyle’s 1853 racist pamphlet . The pamphlet was published by Thomas Bosworth of 215 Regent Street in 1853, having first been printed in the December 1849 issue of Fraser’s Magazine.

Kierkegaard’s conception gave rise to the phrase “leap of faith”—though it is doubtful that he himself ever used the exact expression. Read: The virtues of boredom.

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 ...

In that last book, which appeared in 1849, Kierkegaard offers an uncompromising diagnosis of the human condition. “There is not a single human being who does not despair at least a little, in ...

Soren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813–1855) was a Danish theologian, philosopher, poet, social critic and religious author who is widely considered to be the first existentialist philosopher. He wrote ...

Week 3 - Kierkegaard’s View of Socrates : The goal in this lecture is to have a look at Kierkegaard’s understanding of Socrates and to see where he agrees with Hegel and where he disagrees. We look at ...

THOMAS CARLYLE is a name which no man of this generation should pronounce without respect; for it belongs to one of the high-priests of modern literature, to whom all contemporary minds are ...

Reading Barton Swaim’s review of Oxford’s three-volume edition of Thomas Carlyle’s “The French Revolution” (Books, Jan. 22) sent me back to look at some of my own old copies of Carlyle ...

The collected letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle, a collaborative work by scholars at Duke and Edinburgh universities, has reached its 49th volume and, after more than half a century, nears ...