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vestbirkw t1_iw4k91z wrote

Reply to comment by SquintyBrock in A cross between an Existentialist and an Old Testament prophet, Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard urged his "single individual" reader to follow the "highest passion" of faith rather than becoming one of the stereotyped pseudo-individuals of "The Crowd" by thelivingphilosophy

I think the fact that the man singlehandedly started existentialism is enough to justify reading him. The problems we face in modern today (depression, suicide, anxiety, isolation in spite of connectedness) were all predicted by Kierkegaard. If you want a good and highly relevant place to start I would recommend his short book "The Present Age".

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