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Journals
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The Journals are the lifelong notebooks of Soren Kierkegaard, where the philosopher thought aloud away from the public eye. Across thousands of entries he wrestles with faith, anxiety, love, and his own contradictions, often more directly than in the published books. They are the private workshop behind one of philosophy's most personal bodies of work.
About the author — Søren Kierkegaard
Soren Kierkegaard (1813 to 1855) was a Danish philosopher and theologian, widely considered the first existentialist. His journals reveal the man behind the pseudonyms, recording the inner struggles that his published writing transformed into philosophy.
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What are Kierkegaard's Journals?
They are his private notebooks, kept throughout his life, in which he reflects candidly on faith, despair, love, and his own character, often the raw material for his published works.
What is Kierkegaard's most famous line?
That life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards, an entry from the journals that captures his sense of existence as something chosen in the dark.
Why read the Journals?
Because they show the thinker in private, working out the questions of anxiety and faith more plainly than the dense, pseudonymous books do.