engagement to Regine, xv, 505–07, 514, 660–61, 713
in Berlin, vii–viii, ix, 744
polyonymity, xiii, xvi, 646–51
pseudonyms, 659–60
Constantin Constantius, xiv, 21, 22, 23, 402, 437, 511, 534, 544, 547, 550, 651, 652, 677, 678–79; as banquet host, 26–31, 47, 80–81, 536–39, 556; speech of, 47–56, 515
Frater Taciturnus, x, xii, xvi, 661; as nonreligious, 428, 435, 440, 463, 485–87; as seducer, 491–92; as street inspector, 470
Hilarius Bookbinder, xiv, xvi, 1, 3–6, 516–17, 654, 675
Johannes Climacus, x, xiv, xvii, 696, 737
Johannes de Silentio, xiv
Johannes the Seducer, 21, 22, 23, 28, 47, 511, 534, 536, 651, 678–79; speech of, 71–80, 513, 556–60
Judge William, vii, xi, 82–85, 87–184, 514, 560, 651, 679, 696
Nicolaus Notabene, xiv, 508, 517, 744, 748
Victor Eremita, xiii, xvi, 21, 22, 23, 27–28, 82, 85–86, 511–12, 534, 536–37, 544, 560–61, 678–79; on banquets, 24–25; speech of, 56–65, 515, 552–53
Vigilius Haufniensis, xiv, 747
William Afham, ix, 86, 652, 744
works cited:
“The Activity of a Traveling Esthetician and How He Happened to Pay for the Dinner,” xvi, 676
The Book on Adler, xi, 655, 749
The Concept of Anxiety, ix, xiv, xvi, 515, 705, 711, 712, 724, 727, 744, 747, 748
The Concept of Irony, 686, 730, 732, 738;
Concluding Unscientific Postscript, x, xi, xiii, xiv, xvii, 676, 685, 689, 706, 720, 728, 736, 737, 745
The Corsair Affair, xvi–xvii, 748
Early Polemical Writings, 713
Either/Or, I-II, vii, xiii, xvi, 678–79, 680, 683, 684, 690, 691, 693, 695, 696, 700, 702, 706, 707, 714, 717, 721, 724, 730, 743, 746, 749; relation to Stages, vii–viii, x–xi, xv–xvii, 651–55, 658
Fear and Trembling, vii, x, xi, xiv, xvi, 687, 698, 710, 716, 718, 720, 723, 732, 745
“A First and Last Explanation,” xiv
Four Upbuilding Discourses (1843), xiv
Four Upbuilding Discourses (1844), xiv
Johannes Climacus, 681, 727
Letters and Documents, vii, viii, 675, 678, 685, 687, 699, 705, 716, 727
On My Work as an Author, xiii
“Patience in Expectancy,” 749
The Point of View for My Work as an Author, xiii, 711
Philosophical Fragments, xiv, xvi, 680, 684, 687, 698, 704, 711, 724, 748
Prefaces, xiv, 704, 742, 744, 748
Repetition, viii, x, xi, xiv, xvi, 402, 677, 679, 706, 714, 727, 731, 734, 747
The Sickness unto Death, 732
Stages on Life’s Way: and Book on Adler, 655–57; and Either/Or, vii–viii, x–xi, xv–xvii, 651–55, 658; estimates of, xvii–xviii; misprint in, 662–63; reviews of, xv–xvi; sales of, xvii; and Three Discourses on Imagined Occasions, x–xi, xiv, xv; writing of, vii–ix, 507–08, 511–12, 515, 516, 566, 568–69, 624–25, 660–61, 693
Three Discourses on Imagined Occasions, xi, xiv, xv, 680
Three Upbuilding Discourses (1843), vii, viii, xiv
Three Upbuilding Discourses (1844), xiv, 748
Two Ages, xv, 662, 717, 749
Two Upbuilding Discourses (1843), vii, xiii
Two Upbuilding Discourses (1844), xiv
Without Authority, xiii, 724
Works of Love, 721
works, pseudonymous: list of, xiii–xiv
works, signed: list of, xiii–xiv
King, J. E., Cicero Tusculan Disputations, 704
Kirketidende, 656, 749
kiss, 42, 72, 74, 97, 560; and erotic love, 168, 541; first, 211; Judas kiss, 120; as ludicrous, 39, 40; and short sentences, 514, 565
Kittredge, George Lyman, Complete Works of Shakespeare, 686
Kjøbenhavns flyvende Post, 721
Kjøbenhavnsposten, 746
Klaiber, J. G., Plutarch’s Werke, 721
Klatterup, 292
Klim, Niels, 163
Klopfer, Friedrich Gotthilf, 691
Klopstock, 152, 618
knight, 150; Aladdin as, 103; of reflection, 122; and seducer, 103; of unhappy love, 402
knowledge: and religion, 479; wonder as beginning of, 348
Knox, T. M., Hegel’s Philosophy of Right, 695
Knudsen, Lars, 712
Kruse, Laurids, 678
Kts (pseud. of Jakob Peter Mynster), 649–51
Lactantius, Lucius Firmianus, Institutiones divinae, 688
Lake Gurre, 527
Lalage, 34–35
Lamport, F. J., Five German Tragedies, 734
Lange, Friedrich, Geschichten des Herodotos, 685
language, 29–30, 264, 322–23, 401; changing, 590–91; Danish, 489–91; eloquent, 440; of immediacy, 427; invention of, 216; of love, 72, 293; of passion, 221; philosophical, 415; purpose of, 339, 601; religious, 468–69; rhetorical, 735; and subjunctive, 204–05; vs. thought, 415
Laocoön, 91
Latone(a), 635
Lattimore, Richmond, 715
Laura, 407, 605
leap, x
Lear, 264
legal document, see analogy
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, 502; Nouveaux Essais, 733
leper(s), 232–34, 507, 575
Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim, 386; “Doctor Faust,” 729; Emilia Galotti, 437, 633, 734; Hamburgische Dramaturgie, 734; Nathan der Weise, 733
lesson, reading, 323, 598
Leto, 737
Leukippus, 710
Levin, Israel Salomon, ix, 517; Album of nulevende danske Mænds og Qvinders Haandskrifter, 675
Lichtenberg, Georg Christoph, 8, 146, 229; “Fragmente,” 710; “Litterarische Bemerkungen,” 701; “Ueber Physiognomie wider die Physiognomen,” 676; vermischte Schriften, 676
life, 57; consistency of, 384; everyday, 317, 374; happiest and unhappiest, 262–63, 505, 583, 584; hidden, 17
life-view, 342; in Quidam’s diary, xiii; religious, 162
Lindberg, Jacob Christian, Maanedsskrift for Christendom og Historie, 685
Lindner, Johann Gotthelf, 696, 706
Linné, Carl, v., 401; Systema naturae, 731
literatus (literati), 3, 516
Living Word, 641–42
Livy, 748; History, 740
Loki, 197
Longus, Daphnis and Chloe, 683, 704
loquere ut (te) videam, 398
Louis XVI (king of France), 397
love [K(j)æ(e)rlighed], 124, 126, 140, 173, 226, 413, 421; esthetic and ethical in, 421; faith in, 410; first, 380, 546; and God, 173; God’s, 374–75; and marriage, 124, 126, 140; mother, 135–41; and the religious, 413–14; and religious abstraction, 173; unhappy, 228, 402, 404, 409. See also erotic love
love affair(s), 13, 31–32, 71, 358–59; unhappy, 265, 404–10, 415, 417
lovers, 34; and eternity, 60, 541; happy and unhappy, 71–73, 409, 557; as ludicrous, 32, 35, 40, 43, 541; and married couple, 82–83, 105, 127, 168–69, 560; and solitude, 18–19, 531–33
Lowrie, Walter, Kierkegaard, xv
Lund, Holger, Borgerdydsskolen: Kjøbenhavn, 705
Luther, Martin, 641–42
Lutheranism, Lutheran Church, 190, 230
Lycaenium, 683
Lycophron, 326–27, 722
Macpherson, James, Poems of Ossian, 715
Madvig, Johan Nikolai, 651
Maecenas, 25
Magdelone, 45, 543
man (men): as absolute, 48–49; colored, 50; creates God, 229, 574; and erotic love, 43; and finitude, 62, 75; as half-person, 48; and ideality, 63, 65; as inferior, 75; married, 64, 74, 79, 90–93, 95, 105–06, 109, 112–17, 119, 122, 124, 129, 138–41, 152, 160, 168, 170, 177, 402; and reduplication, 65; and suffering, 306
Manasse, 233, 575
Manso, Johann Kasper Friedrich, Geschichte des Preussischen Staates vom Frieden zu Hubertusburg . . . , 718
Marchant, E. C, Xenophon Memorabilia and Oeconomicus, 709
Marheineke, Philipp, 681
Marius, 703
marriage(s), 12; absolute meaning in, 128; abstraction and, 114–15, 174–75; amusement in, 545; believer in, 90, 130; bonds of, 91, 112, 165; as Christian, 101; complexity of, 63–64; concreteness of, 114–15; dangers of, 127; deception and, 375; as duty, 100, 111–12, 117; and erotic love, 12, 97, 100, 102, 105–07, 110–11, 129, 180; and eternity, 101; expresses idea, 79, 105–06; faith in, 91; and falling in love, 95, 102, 109, 111, 115, 120, 147; and freedom, 102; frivolity of, 12; and God, 99–100; humor and, 128–30; and immediacy, 64, 101–02, 148; importance of, 88, 145; as jest or earnestness, 83, 149; and love, 126; and lovers, 105, 127; and memory, 94–95; and Middle Ages, 106, 170, 172; not highest life, 169; objections to, 92, 97, 102, 105–07, 119–20, 124, 142–43, 145–46, 169, 173, 561–62; and paganism, 100–101, 106; and poetry, 127–28, 155; queries about, 63, 355; rarity of true, 166, 173; and recollection, 94–95; recommended, 89–90, 96–97, 117, 183, 564; and reflection, 64; and the religious, 172, 178; and repentance, 261; and resolution, 95, 102, 107–12, 114–17, 122, 147–48, 156, 166–67; responsibilities of, 91, 117, 124; risks of, 116–17; security of, 128–29, 179; Socrates on, 156–57, 160; strangeness of, 63; as synthesis, 114–15, 117–18, 551; as τέλος, 101–02, 106; and temporality, 79–80, 117, 171; titles in, 93–94. See also man; Quidam; woman
Martensen, Hans Lassen, 732; “Betragtningen over Idees af Faust,” 703
Martha, 206
Mary Magdalene, 353–54
“matchless,” 378, 490, 641–42. See also Grundtvig
Mathiesen, Lars, 514, 743
Maxwell, Patrick, Nathan the Wise, 733
Mayer, Elizabeth and Louise Bogan, Elective Affinities, 689
McDonald, Mary Francis, Divine Institutes, 688
mediation, 431; and contradiction, 366
Medlidenhed, 460
melancholy, see despair
Melissa, 326
Mellemværende, 216
memory, xv; and absentmindedness, 120; and childhood, 10; criminal’s, 14; and experience, 9, 14; and forgetting, 9, 518, 677; and guilt, 520–21; and immediacy, 12; and immortality, 522; and marriage, 94–95; old person’s, 9; vs. recollection, 9–15, 21, 518–22, 524–25; and sin, 520–21
Mephistopheles, 25
merchant ship, see analogy
Meta, 152, 618
metal, imitation, see analogy
metaphysics, the metaphysical, 476, 483, 486, 633
Meyer, Henry, Aladdin or the Wonderful Lamp, 689
Middle Ages, 106, 127, 170, 172, 182, 198, 292, 372, 454, 501, 527, 613, 641
Milky Way, 113
Miller, A. V., Hegel’s Science of Logic, 727
Miller, Frank Justus, Ovid Metamorphoses, 692
Miølner, 677
misunderstanding, 248, 416, 424; and the comic, 626; and poetry, 417, 419; and possibility of understanding, 416–17, 420–21
modesty, 18, 77–78, 158, 167, 559
Møller, Peder Ludvig: and Stages, xvi–xvii
Møller, Poul Martin: En Danske Students Eventyr, 699; Efterladte Skrifter, 699; Om populærs Ideers Udvikling, xi
moment, 11
monastery, 65, 180, 182, 197–98
morality, 123
Moravian Brethren, 690
Moser, J., L. Annaeus Seneca’s Werke, 680
mother, 44; woman as, 133–40
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 28; Don Giovanni, 19, 27, 531, 533, 536, 653, 678, 680, 686, 701, 744, 745; Don Juan, 512, 678, 680, 686, 700, 744, 745; Marriage of Figaro, 698
Müllern, Johann Samuel, Des C. Cornelius Tacitus sämmtliche Werke, 737
Münchhausen, Karl Friedrich Hieronymus v., 148, 161, 428; Baron von Münchhausens vidunderlige Reiser, Feldtog og Hændelser, fortalte af ham selv, 701
Mundt, Theodor, Charlotte Stieglitz, ein Denkmal, 721
murder, 45, 49, 50
Murphy, Arthur, Tacitus: The Historical Works, Germania and Agricola, 737
Murray, A. T., Homer The Iliad, 702; Homer The Odyssey, 691
Musäus, Johann Karl August: “Legenden von Rübezahl,” 698; “Liebestreue,” 683; “Rolands Knappen,” 707; Volksärchen der Deutschen, 683
Muse(s), 25, 679; of poetry, 735
mussel, see analogy
Mynster, Jakob Peter (pseud. Kts), 748; Om Begrebet af den Christelige Dogmatik, 685
mythology: Greek, 679, 697, 698, 705, 707, 723–24, 737, 744, 745; Norse, 677, 679, 700, 706, 744. See also gods/goddesses, individual names
names: sacred, 658
Napoleon, 41, 456, 637
Nathan (the prophet), 251
Nathanson, Mendel Levin, 650
naturalist, 187–89
Nebuchadnezzar, 360–63, 508, 608–10, 744
negative, the, 61, 443–44, 474, 642
Nichols, James, Edward Young The Complete Works Poetry and Prose, 747
Nielsen, Anna Helene Dorothea, 131–32, 562–63
Nielsen, Michael, 716
Nitsch, Paul Friedrich A., neues mythologisches Wörterbuch, 691, 697, 698, 714, 724, 737
Nook of Eight Paths, 16–17, 19, 503, 511, 525, 528–29
normal-school graduate, 4–6, 482
nota bene, 64
nulla pallescere culpa, 475
Ny Portefeuille, 648, 748
Nyerup, Rasmus, 716
Nystrørn, Eiler, Offentlige Forlystelser i Frederik Den Sjettes Tid, 738
Nyt Aflenblad, xvi
observation, 567
Odin, 679
Oehlenschläger, Adam Gottlob: Aladdin, 689, 692, 696, 702, 703, 746; Erik og Abel, 599, 744, 746; Hugo von Rheinberg, 703; Lange-lands-Reise, 744; “Morgen-Vandring,” 744; “Thors Reise til Jothunheim,” 678; Nordiske Digte, 678; Palnatoke, 747; Poetiske Skrifter, 689; Sovedrikken, 684
Olsen, Regine, 713, 742
Omphale, 180, 705
one thing needful, 206, 231
Ønskeqvist, 28, 80, 647
Order of the Iron Cross, 718
Orient, oriental, 56, 58
orphanage, 677
Ortlepp, Ernst, Shakespeare’s dramatische Werke, 686
Osmaston, F.P.B., The Philosophy of Fine Art, 681
Ossian: “Carric-thura,” 715; “Crothar,” 715
ostracism, 704
Othello, 49–50
outcome, see result
outer: and the inner, 375, 428, 441
Overskou, Thomas, 745; and Anton
Ludvig Arnesen, Capriciosa, eller Familien i Nyboder, 683
Ovid: Metamorphoses, 692; Tristia, 678
Oxenford, John, Autobiography of Goethe, 701
pagan, paganism, 108, 422; and Christianity, 145, 162; and erotic love, 100, 122; and immediacy, 100; and marriage, 100–01, 106
Pamphila, Commentaries, 722
Pamphilius, 469–70
Pandora, 691
panis et circenses, 136
paradox, 14
Pascal, 460, 637
pasha, 320
passion, 81, 191; contradiction in, 302; and erotic love, 406; and falling in love, 163; and poetry, 405–06, 408–10; and politics, 410–11; and the religious, 646; and resolution, 163
past, 13
pathos, 49, 54; Goethe and, 152–53; of immediacy, 152
pearl, see analogy
pecus, 175
pen, 183–84, 307, 565
Per Degn, 340
Percy, 291
Periander of Ambracia, 323, 598–99
Periander (the tyrant), 323–28, 566, 596–97, 598–99. See also proverbs
Pericles, 318–19, 598
Pernille, 401
Perrin, Bernadotte, Plutarch’s Lives, 677
Petrarch, 333, 407, 605, 625; Rimes, 723
Phaedria, 204–05, 295
Pharisee, 238
Philine, 513
physiology, 281
Pierrot, 220, 437
piety, 44–45
Piloty, Ferdinand, 703
plan(s): deliberation before, 475<
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Plato, 33, 34, 45, 55, 348, 365, 707, 728; thanks the gods, 56, 62, 547, 688; Apology, 692, 739; Gorgias, 698, 732, 734; Phaedo, 418, 626, 720, 732; Philebus, 676; Republic, 736, 741; Symposium, xviii, 675, 681, 703, 727, 732, 743; Thaetetus, 724; Timaeus, 687
Plutarch, 319, 598; Lives: “Caesar,” 728; “Cams Marius,” 688; “Marcellus,” 714, 740; “Marcus Cato,” 677; “Pericles,” 721; “Pyrrhus,” 726; “Solon,” 736; Lives, 677; Moralia: On the Fame of the Athenians, 693
poetize: a relationship, 154–55
poetry, the poetic, 58–59, 61, 625; comic and tragic in, 418–19; end of, 412; and erotic love, 413; and the esthetic, 441; and the ethical, 154–55, 441; and illness, 458–59, 461, 638; and immediacy, 105; inner and outer in, 441; and love, 413; and marriage, 127–28, 155; and married man, 105; and misunderstanding, 417, 419; Muses of, 735; and passion, 405–06, 408–10; and politics, 410–12; and the religious, 413, 639; and unhappy love, 404–08; and wife/mother, 141–42. See also esthetics
poet(s), 41, 59, 74; and married man, 402–03; as undesirable, 442
police, 82, 245–46, 552, 560, 593, 649, 657
politics: and inspiration, 411; and passion, 410–11; and poetry, 410, 412
Polos, 482
portio mea et poculum, 566–67
poscimur, 114–277
Poseidon, 707
positive, the, 61, 443–44
posse, 439, 633
possibility, 16, 25, 62, 76; and actuality, 205, 328–29, 439, 472
Potiphar, 62
prayer, 238–39, 347–48; and reflection, 348
preface, 518, 568–69
present, the, 13
pride, 174
primitivity, 125, 257–58, 379, 430
principle: of excluded middle, 708
probability, 467; and resolution, 110
productivity, and recollection, 14
Prometheus, 111, 565, 691
prompter, see analogy
propter hoc, 395
prostitute, prostitution, 502, 510
prototype: religious, 258. See also Forbilleder
proverbs, 719–20; Admire nothing, 474, 739–40; Aut Caesar, aut nihil, 150; The deceived is wiser than one not deceived, 88; Diligence accomplishes everything, 324; Do not do what ought to be kept secret, 324; Ehestand is Wehestand, 115; Engaged people always become thin, 371; He is free who mocks his chains, 421; Homo sum, nil humani a me alienum puto, 365; Der Manner Schwüre sind der Frauen Verräther, 221; III gain breeds bad gain, 324–25; It is better to be feared than to be pitied, 324; More annihilated than repentant, 325, 599; The more lost, the less repentant, 502; Mundus vult decipi, 340; Never go back where you have once been, 118, 653; No man knows for sure how many children he has, 285, 588, 590; Nur die Gesundheit ist liebenswürdig, 458–61, 637; Omne animal post coitum triste, 542; Periissem nisiperiissem, 194; Quem deus perdere vult primum dementat, 267; Speech was given to man to conceal his thoughts, 747; Tyrants . . . must have goodwill as a bodyguard, 325; Ultra posse nemo obligator, 394
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