Example sentences for: kierkegaard

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  • In a dangerously cantilevered sentence of the kind that Steiner does at times resort to, he asserts: "[I]t may well be that the ethnic-demographic elements in the successive waves of American settlement are 'Darwinian negative,' that they embody the brilliant survival of an anti-historical species, where 'anti-historianism' would entail an abdication from those adaptive mechanisms of tragic intellectuality, of ideological 'caring' (Kierkegaard's, Heidegger's word Sorge ) which are indispensable to cultural creation of the first rank."

  • New, if not unexpected, subjects include Kierkegaard, Simone Weil, dreams, the deaths of Socrates and Jesus, and the phenomenology of Edmund Husserl.

  • Kruger and Dunning's finding also calls to mind the quotation from Soren Kierkegaard's The Sickness Unto Death that serves as the epigraph to Walker Percy's novel The Moviegoer : "[T]he specific character of despair is precisely this: it is unaware of being despair."

  • West is self-made intellectual who found Kierkegaard in a bookmobile, was influenced by the Black Panthers as a teen-ager, and found his way to Karl Barth and John Dewey.

  • (Moyers: "In authentic religion, doesn't it take Kierkegaard's leap of faith?"


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