Word: kierkegaard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dignitary's head, while the pair reach a tongue-blistering stalemate on the accommodations of power vs. the demands of conscience. Two ideas have entered Doctorow's play on a double ladder of descent. Ennui, anomie - the catatonic state of buried lives - was summed up by Kierkegaard when he called despair "the sickness unto death...
...author also explores the dark division of his Western heart. He invokes Kierkegaard's "sickness of infinitude" and looks back wistfully to a presumed time when ancient mystics and so-called children of nature were said to view existence as whole, seamless cloth. Matthiessen skillfully condenses philosophies, religions and ideas, but pays for stylistic niceties with oversimplifications. To write, as he does, that "the advent of the industrial revolution made new barbarians of the peoples of the West" says nothing about the old barbarians who existed in those fabled holistic ages. Was there ever really a time when mankind...
With that increase to egg him on, Glistrup kept up his antitax campaign, though he was scarcely, as he claimed to be, the most celebrated Dane since Hans Christian Andersen and Soren Kierkegaard. Before the court verdict was pronounced last week, the irrepressible tax dodger declared: "If you ask me what would crush my vitality, I believe it would be the judge's not-guilty verdict. That would hit me harder than a guilty verdict. My psychological power comes from fighting a battle in which I've been unfairly, horribly and absurdly treated." He got his wish...
...ranging from driving cabs to belatedly enrolling in law school. In an experimental program at the New York University (NYU) School of Business Administration scheduled to start in June, 50 carefully selected graduate students and recent Ph.D.s from the humanities and related social science disciplines will trade in their Kierkegaard and 16th-century French history studies for a hard-nosed look at the world of corporate management...
...Kooky Kierkegaard separates conscious man into three classes: the Unreflecting Esthete, the Ethical Man of Law, and the Religious man. The Esthete transcends himself through Irony to become the Man of Law, and the Man of Law transcends himself through the recognition of the Absurd to become the Religious man who lives in the world but not of it. This explains Woody Allen's fascination with the works of Kierkegaard (it also explains Kierkegaard's continual use of pseudonyms as an escape from fixed identify). The humorist desperately wants to take himself seriously, and concomitant to this, wants others...