Parables of Kierkegaard

Wonderful and thought provoking read. You don't need to have read philosophy to understand his parables.

I bought this book for a class, and it was one of the ones I didn't sell back at the end of the semester! Really a gem, with lots of little nuggets full of food for thought, and a great intro to the fascinating oeuvre of Kierkegaard!

Soren was a brilliant surveyor of the human soul. Collected in this volume are what amounts to a greatest hits of parables highlighting the discoveries he made along the way that compel the reader to get off the philosophical phence when it comes to life's decisions. Don't sweat the small stuff? More like, Think, Choose, and the small stuff never surfaces. Perhaps the greatest of all his parables is "The Jewel on Thin Ice", and its inclusion here is worth the purcahse price all by itself. If you are familiar with Kierkegaard, you know what a brilliant reference tome this will be. If you are not, this is a great way to begin your examination of a man who was justifiably the Danish Dalai Lhama. His spirituality is immersed in being present in the moment, and would lay the foundation for all existentialist (i.e., Buddhist thinkers in Western trappings) thought in the 20th Century from Husserl and Sartre to Heidegger and Neil Young. Well done, well worth keeping by your reading lamp. It is a jewel on thin ice well worth risking one's immersion.

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Let's be honest, SK is not the easiest of all reads. This collection makes it not only bearbale but enjoyable to wade through. Any person could read what SK is saying and in a lot quicker time than reading his works.