Aut-aut

Søren Kierkegaard was clever, arrogant, verbose, observant, cynical, ironic, prolific, religious, gifted. His writing is dense, polemical, lyrical, remarkable. His magnum opus, Either-Or , is an exceptional work. I struggled my way through it, much as I imagine I would struggle to climb Mount Everest Leggi tutto

Of course, a critic resembles a poet to a hair, except that he has no anguish in his heart, no music on his lips. This is one of those rare unclassifiable books, whose genre was born the day it was published and which has since left no heirs. Kierkegaard gives us what appears, at first, to be a s

Easily one of the best books I have read this year, as this year nears the end, I can say without a doubt that Kierkegaard was truly a genius. It is not without purpose that my mind immediately rushes to Nietzsche pithy aphorism on genius wherein he writes, "Every deep thinker is more afraid of bein Leggi tutto

This is one of those books that you read that covers a bunch of things you had been thinking about on your own, at which point you realize "oh: i'm not really that smart, am I?" But as a general rule, I like anyone who agrees with me, and I like the way Kerigaodigjadkfaodfkadsdfnsldfkasdfnlaskdn (sp? Leggi tutto

I always hear people say that a book “changed their outlook on the world,” and i never really believed it. That is, until Either/or. Obviously those who know Anything about me know that my favorite person in the world is the late musician, Elliott Smith. I bought this book immediately after finding Leggi tutto