- Kierkegaard on the Internet
by F.J. Billeskov Jansen A Critical Epoch for Denmark T A West Jutland Family I Childhood and Youth S The Danceuse (1833) and in Carl Bagger's novel, The Life of My Brother (1834). It is also found in Kierkegaard's journal, for instance in April 1836: "I have just come from a party, where I was the life and soul. Jokes flowed from my mouth; everyone laughed, admired me - but I went, yes the dash ought be as long as the radii of the earth's orbit - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - away and wanted to shoot myself" (Pap I A 156, 158, 161) an indescribable joy " (Pap. II A 228), a Christian breakthrough. On 9 August he was shaken by his father's death, but realized that he "has died for me , so that, if possible, something might still be made of me" (Pap. II A 243), i.e. a good bourgeois citizen. In September he published anonymously a short work, From the Papers of One Still Living , in which he reproached Hans Christian Andersen that in his novel Only a Fiddler he "completely lacks any philosophy of life". After preparing industriously, he took his degree examination on 3 July 1840; on 10 September he proposed marriage to Regine Olsen, whom he had known since May 1837. As a betrothed man he was preparing for ministry as a clergyman and on 12 January 1841 he preached a trial sermon in Holmens Church. At the same time he had been considering a scholarly career and a dissertation of his | |
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