Medieval & Modern Philosophy · 19th century
Kierkegaard
The Danish father of existentialism: truth as subjectivity, the aesthetic, ethical and religious stages, Abraham and the leap of faith, anxiety as the dizziness of freedom, and his war on comfortable Christendom.
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Prereqs: Hegel. Next: Nietzsche; Sartre. Sources: Kierkegaard, *Either/Or* (1843), *Fear and Trembling* (1843), *The Concept of Anxiety* (1844); Clare Carlisle, *Philosopher of the Heart* (2019).Next: 1. The single individual