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Haiti's despair tops out | 14 comments (14 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: Haiti's despair tops out (none / 1)

I doubt Kierkegaard is widely read. Full stop.

- Jake

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by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Wed Jan 20th, 2010 at 07:11:58 AM EST
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Re: Haiti's despair tops out (4.00 / 2)

I've read some Kierkegaard. His writing felt very dated and did not inspire to more reading. I sort of had to backwards-engineer the questions he was addressing, and the questions framings felt trapped in the specifics of his time and place.

So I am not surprised if few reads him.

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by A swedish kind of death on Wed Jan 20th, 2010 at 07:19:12 PM EST
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Re: Haiti's despair tops out (none / 1)

I had much the same impression. But then again, the philosophical problems that he is normally advertised as addressing are largely irrelevant to the brand of philosophy that I subscribe to. So I don't know whether I'm the best judge of whether his questions are contrived.

Also, I didn't read a whole lot of it. His style rubbed me the wrong way.

- Jake

If you only spend 20 minutes of the rest of your life on economics, go spend them here.

by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Wed Jan 20th, 2010 at 07:51:12 PM EST
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Re: Haiti's despair tops out (4.00 / 2)

He was read quite a bit in the 60s when existentialism was more in vogue with young people.

by shergald on Fri Jan 22nd, 2010 at 08:18:46 PM EST
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Re: Haiti's despair tops out (none / 0)

Check out this video at 1m35s.

"I read Kierkegaard"

"In that case, you can smoke"

En un viejo país ineficiente, algo así como España entre dos guerras civiles, poseer una casa y poca hacienda y memoria ninguna. -- Gil de Biedma

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Sat Jan 23rd, 2010 at 05:30:45 AM EST
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