Question: Starting with Kierkegaard

Starting with Kierkegaard

I'm looking at starting to read some philosophy from Soren Kierkegaard, any suggestions as to where I should get started?

Date Posted: July 24, 2007 Tagged Under: Literature . Philosophy . Kierkegaard . Dutch
Rating:
8.7

I picked up The Living Thoughts of Kierkegaard, published by New York Review Books. It is edited and has in introduction my W.H. Auden. Its great if you have never read any of his works.

Rating:
9.4

I would start with "Either/Or". It is probably the best introduction to Kierkegaard's standpoint on ethical (christian based) existentialism and his "leap into faith" perspective. For a good juxtaposition, I would suggest Camus' "The Stranger" (fiction) or any of Jean-Paul Sartre's work.