Word: kierkegaard
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...another vein, many spiritual pilgrims are returning to an appreciation of mysticism. More Jews today-especially the young-are delving into the mysteries of Hasidism, and Christians are re-examining their own great mystics: Meister Eckhart, St. John of the Cross, St. Teresa of Avila and Sören Kierkegaard. Many mainstream Protestants and Catholics, while staying mostly within their churches, are caught up in the rapidly expanding Pentecostal movement. The Pentecostalists seek to renew their belief through an ecstatic personal encounter with the Holy Spirit, manifested especially in glossolalia, the speaking of mysterious tongues. These neo-Pentecostalists tend...
...Danish theologian-philosopher Sören Kierkegaard called despair "the sickness unto death." His description also applies to the severe psychiatric illnesses once labeled melancholia by Freud. These are not the down moods that plague everyone occasionally, but immobilizing and devastating conditions that often cause physical signs and symptoms like loss of appetite and weight, insomnia and slowness of body movement...
Barber has studied political psychology, but a character analysis far from the couch must be treated with a certain skepticism. His scheme obviously leaves a lot to be examined: Is exuberance, for instance, so easily distinguished from anxiety? Kierkegaard did not think so. Still, Barber's concept is fascinating, if not final. Since Barber's express purpose in writing his book is to encourage a hard look at men before they reach the White House, TIME asked him to estimate what kind of President George McGovern would make. Barber's analysis...
Coles has a philosophical bent too. Philosophers Sören Kierkegaard and Simone Weil appeal to him for their interest in "everydayness, the everyday movement of people's lives." He admires Ralph Ellison (Invisible Man) and William Faulkner?"the real psychologists." Most important to Coles, though, is the late James Agee, whose writing style he consciously imitated in the early 1960s and whose photograph looks down on Coles as he writes. Erikson says that Coles strongly identifies with the author of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, that early portrait of sharecroppers. Both writers, says Erikson, "are part of a tradition...
Despite the predominance of group action at Havard nowadays, this sensibility has the individual as its major point of reference and departure. I think enchantment with the individual found its flowering as a force in modern history with the existentialist movement, with the popularity of Kierkegaard, Dostoevesky, Sartre, Camus; and in this country (in some way) with Salinger; for blacks with Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, the poetry of Le Roi Jones and the social criticism of Eldridge Cleaver; and in Southern literature with the heroes and anti-heros of William Faulkner...