[Writers & Readers Documentary Comic Book 01] • Kierkegaard for Beginners

The Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard was one of the most original thinkers of the 19th Century OCo and one of the most enigmatic men who ever walked the Earth.

Philosophically, Kierkegaard was the OC bridgeOCO that led from Hegel to Existentialism.

Kierkegaard abhorred HegelOCOs abstract, Know-it-all idealism that tried to capture reality in a few words. KierkegaardOCOs attack on social and religious complacency and his single-handed assault on traditional Western philosophy generated a crisis that produced a radically new way of philosophizing and made him the founder of the school that would later be called Existentialism. To Kierkegaard, reality was personal, subjective OCo it began and ended with the individual OCo and philosophy was not something one merely talked about, it was the way you lived.

For such a brilliant thinker, the way Kierkegaard lived wasOC somewhat too interesting? His OC abstractOCO love affair? His obsession with death? His OC leap of Faith, OCO his cynicism, his marvelous sense of humor OCo how do you put all that into one man?

For starters, you reada"Kierkegaard For Beginners." It explains, plainly and simply, the great Danish thinkerOCOs obsession with the particularity of human existence as well as his demonstration of how the creation of an authentic new kind of individual is possiblea"