Word: kierkegaard
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...controversy. His professors at first embraced their phosphorescent student. They were soon dismayed to find him neglecting past allegiances and expressing ideas of furious originality. He was universal in influence and appeal-yet he was heavily Teutonic in style and thought. His philosophical parents were the aphoristic Nietzsche and Kierkegaard. Yet Heidegger's own writings are jargon-filled and obscure-so much so that Novelist Günter Grass parodied them in Dog Years as a symptom of Germany's political disintegration...
...place is with her husband, and that she should keep quiet and cover her head in church. I just can't go along with him on that." Carter also has read deeply from the works of religious thinkers such as Reinhold Niebuhr, Karl Earth, Paul Tillich and Soren Kierkegaard and quotes from them. In particular, he is fond of this sentence from Niebuhr: "The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world...
...same tolerant eye for people which marks his fiction; the reviewer is not in conflict with the poet and novelist in him. His pieces, the majority of which have appeared in The New Yorker, are not pedantic and their appeal is expansive. His topics range from Borges's stoicism, Kierkegaard's tormented religiousity, Grass's flippant cynicism, to subjects of a more light-hearted tone, as for example in his piece called "Jong Love...
...good fortune that Knock Knock is happily incarcerated in off-off-Broadway's Circle Repertory Theater. This is a kooky, laugh-saturated miracle play in the absurdist tradition. It is as if someone had merged The Odd Couple and The Sunshine Boys and peppered the mix with Kierkegaard and the Marx Brothers. Nor is that all. The unifying element is Jewish humor-skeptical, self-deprecating, fatalistic and with an underlying sadness that suggests that all the mirth is a self-protective mask hiding imminent lamentation...
...acceptance, students found themselves unable to study current intellectual and sociological trends. Yet professors, rather than face the challenge of re-examining their own values in order to teach new ideas, turned back to their specialties. Instead of renovating their courses and re-examining traditional analyses of, for example, Kierkegaard, Shakespeare and Freud, and reinvestigating the basis of civilization and culture when accepted theories were coming under fire, there was a general retreat from the mass of angry, frustrated students. Although the consistently popular professors continued to lecture to large audiences, they were not being followed by a younger generation...