September 3, 2004

Søren Kierkegaard, Sit-Down Comic

By SCOTT McLEMEE

DIVINE COMEDY: Philosophical insight and neurotic misery have seldom been so perfectly blended as in the work of Søren Kierkegaard. Intellectual historians have traced the origin of existentialist thought to the Danish theologian's writings from the 1840s, which defied the trendy system-building of his contemporaries. Against the Hegelians -- who sought to fuse all of human knowledge into a grand structure of ideas, culminating in the Absolute Idea -- Kierkegaard insisted on

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