Word: kierkegaard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...came strongly under the influence of German idealism and phenomenology as a student of philosophy at Vienna University. Buber was an active Zionist, and for several years he worked closely with Theodor Herzl and Chaim Weizmann. But at the same time he was deeply influenced by Dostoevsky and Kierkegaard, and some of his first writings were on the German Christian mystics Jakob Boehme, Meister Eckhart and Nicholas of Cusa...
...accident of history, are forced to develop individuality or at least strength, like Emperor Claudius and Harry Truman. There are, above all, the unremembered and unknown individuals who take their stand and suffer their small martyrdoms in all places and all ages. With them in mind, Kierkegaard said: "The truly extraordinary man is the truly ordinary...
...seems! Indeed, perhaps it is envy that leads to the contemporary stereotype of James--James viewed, that is, as a shallowly optimistic, money-before-truth philosopher. One need only turn to The Varieties of Religious Experience, however, to recall that the 1800's were the century of Kierkegaard as well as of Herbert Spencer. It was at the age of 27 that James contracted the following classic case of "existential dread...
...mainstream Marxism made his campus career; but Clem ("an Infantile Leftist") was the type who went to jail. Now Mark has burgeoned in his bogus beard as a TV-forum type, a voice of religiosity cum psychoanalytical fashion. Clem sneers at him as "Temple B'nai Kierkegaard...
...loneliness of Kafka and his characters misleads Politzer in his conclusion that Kafka stands alone in literature too. He pays little attention to the insights Kafka gained from Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Gogol and Poe, still less to the enormous influence of Kafka on such writers as Robbe-Grillet, Camus and Sartre. In a final chapter that judges Kafka against Camus (unfairly, and at Camus's great expense), he notes the obvious distinctions in the work of two writers often compared: what Camus says in Olympian detachment, Kafka says in nervous excitement ; where Camus needs crisis to show...