Example sentences for: kierkegaard

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

  • "Alone among the guru class, he grabbed hold of business and made it do and say extraordinary things" (Michael Lewis, the New York Times Book Review ). They emphasize Drucker's philosophical influences (he studied Kierkegaard and political theory), his vast oeuvre , and his long-standing doubts about free markets.

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

  • 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."

  • But nowadays, so many of my contemporaries and colleagues are going--five at Harvard and MIT in the past months--that I turn to those pages with what Kierkegaard called "the concept of the Dread."


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