It’s well known that Søren Kierkegaard was quite worried about the trends of the “present age.” He thought that individuals were losing themselves to abstractions, aestheticizing self-conceptions, and ambivalent comparisons with others. In Two Ages, he called his a “reflective” and “passionless” age. Kierkegaard intended his pseudonymous intellectual project—itself chock-full of abstraction, aesthetes, and ambivalences—to get […]
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