Tag Archives: Kierkegaard

Passing the Grave of Johannes Climacus in Spoon River Cemetery

Posted on December 9, 2011 by

If you haven’t come into contact with Edgar Lee Masters’ Spoon River Anthology, then I beg you to stop reading this and go buy it. I am quite serious. (If you lack the two dollar price of the Dover Thrift … Continue reading →

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Climacus to his Readers or: How Philosophy Is Like the Weather in Alabama

Posted on December 1, 2011 by

From “A Satisfaction to Note,” the opening preface to Kierkegaard’s Johannes Climacus, sometimes called De Omnibus Dubitandem Est: Someone who supposes that philosophy has never in the world been so near to solving its problems (to explaining all secrets) as now, … Continue reading →

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