Word: kierkegaarde
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...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...
...conquer it if he is to arrive at a metaphysical sense of self. No philosopher had a more playfully metaphysical sense of self than that most exoteric of existentialists, that master mirthful mentation--just in from the Danish Coast, here he is now, Ladies and Gentlemen, Soren "The Psycho" Kierkegaard. You may all stop reading now. I only introduced Kierkegaard as a further inducement for you to stop reading, primarily because I can't understand why any of you would be interested in Humor Theory, the most tedious of philosophical endeavors...
...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...
...philosophical overtone of the material was more than a coincidence since Hoberman's other courses include one which studies the philosophy of Kierkegaard, an author Hoberman quotes almost as often as English 160a's Robert Chapman mutters "George Bernard Shaw...
Still, Carter is fond of quoting Danish Theologian Soren Kierkegaard that "every man is an exception," a view that certainly fits him. He has been described with a catalogue of contradictions: liberal, moderate, conservative, compassionate, ruthless, soft, tough, a charlatan, a true believer, a defender of the status quo, a populist Hamlet...