Author

Books by Søren Kierkegaard

Søren Kierkegaard (1813–1855) was a Danish philosopher and theologian, born in Copenhagen into a wealthy and deeply religious family marked by his father's sense of divine punishment. Writing prolifically under numerous pseudonyms to explore different stages of existence, he produced works including Either/Or, Repetition, Fear and Trembling, Philosophical Fragments, and The Sickness Unto Death over barely a decade. His insistence on subjective truth, individual existence, and the irreducibility of genuine faith made him the progenitor of 20th-century existentialism. He died after collapsing in a street in Copenhagen at age 42.