The Present Age

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. The Human Condition
6. The Absurd 45
7. Vacillation 50
8. Beginning and Risking 53
9. Stages in Becoming Oneself
10. Aesthetic Existence 59
11. Ethical Existence 63
12. Religious Existence 69
13. Inwardness
14. Incongruities 77
15. Suffering 80
16. Finding and Losing Oneself 84
17. Death 88
18. Christianity
19. Becoming a Christian 95
20. Incarnation and Atonement 99
21. Offense and Paradox 103
22. Eternal Happiness in Time 107
23. Theology
24. God 113
25. Explaining Hegel to God 117
26. The Hazards of Regnant Theology 120
27. Immortality 124
28. "Christendom"
29. Sin 129
30. Prayer 134
31. The Status of Christianity within Modernity 138
32. The Bible 143
33. The Clergy 147
34. Repentance 154
35. Denmark 158
36. Relationships
37. The Hazards of Love 163
38. Love and Duty 167
39. Marriage and the Single State 170
40. The Vulnerability of the Male 174
41. The Strength of Woman 179
42. Children and Youth 186
43. Truth and Communication
44. Literary and Artistic Criticism 193
45. Comedy and Contradiction 197
46. Laughter as the Test of Truth 203
47. The Vocation of Authorship 208
48. The Culture of Modernity
49. The Present Age 219
50. Objective Knowledge and Science 222
51. Medicine 226
52. Authority and Establishment 229
53. World History 232
54. Sociological and Cultural Analysis
55. Cheap Talk on a Grand Scale 237
56. Journalism and the Press 241
57. Public Opinion and the Crowd 248
58. Advertising and Impression Management 251
59. Politics, Revolution, and Reform 254
60. Equality 261
61. Economics 267
62. Psychological Analysis
63. Behavior Change 273
64. Anxiety, Guilt, and Boredom 277
65. Contradictions within Academia
66. Education and the Universities 285
67. Philosophical Systems 290
68. Pure Thought 296
69. Doubt 300
70. Speculation and Idealism 305
71. Socrates 308
72. Teaching 313
73. Appendix: How Comic Episodes Correlate with the Stages 317
74. Bibliography 323
75. Index 329