The Diary Of Soren Kierkegaard

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Soren Kierkegaard who was born in Denmark and died there at the age of forty-two is regarded by many as the father of existentialist thinking. During his lifetime the Hegelian theologian he reacted against the Hegelian theologists in Denmark denounced organized religion and held that the act of choice by an individual was all-important. The Diary covers the important elements in Kierkegaards life including his childhood his relations with his father the influence of other writers on him his broken engagement (which had a far-reaching effect on the rest of his life) and his celebrated quarrel with the Church. Kierkegaards writings are important because he is almost the first European writer to take a modern analytical psychological approach to religion. Proust Joyce and Aldous Huxley were only a few of the modern writers influenced by the Dane; and Jean-Paul Sartres philosophy of existentialism is based on his thinking.