Word: kierkegaard
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...become human or to learn what it means to be human does not come that easily,” he said, drawing from Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard...
...striving to bring reality to the point of sobriety, whereas I’m striving to bring reality to the point of literature, and at a certain moment our paths inevitably diverge.”Pilch calls on the words of writers and thinkers like Leibnitz, Dostoevsky, Nabokov and Kierkegaard to answer his existential questions. But he hesitates to analyze his own life as an alcoholic, and he uses the stories of his fellow addicts instead: Don Juan the Rib, The Most Wanted Terrorist in the World, the Sugar King, the Queen of Kent, the Hero of Socialist Labor...
...exciting in the way only foreign concepts can be.At first, I went for the cream of the crop—cafés, book shops, the hip record store I frequented downtown—but before long I realized the hard truth of age discrimination: my love for Kierkegaard and my carefully cultivated jeu d’esprit meant less than nothing to The Man at Borders who saw the number “16” on my application and, without so much as a glance at my qualifications, tossed it in the shredder for sustainable recycling.So...
Copenhagen is a very nice city in a very nice country. And if you're like me, that's all you might know about the place, along with the fact that was once home to Hans Christian Andersen, Kierkegaard and Hamlet. But next winter, Copenhagen will become the center of the climate change world. In December 2009, the capital of Denmark will host the 15th meeting of the Conference of Parties to the Kyoto Protocol, better known as the UN climate change summit. It happens every year - the most recent one was held last December on the Indonesian island...
...June 2 suicide bombing outside the Danish embassy in Islamabad, which killed six people, has caused a bout of soul-searching in the land of Kierkegaard and Hamlet. More than ever, Danes are asking what price their country can afford to pay for its increasingly entrenched reputation as a forthright critic of Islam...