One of the most knowledgable and also influential management theorists, the famouis, late Peter Drucker, had a few sentences as follows, which revealed his true diciplines: a multiple-diciplined philosopher:
For Kiekegaard, human existence is possible only in tension--in tension between man's simultaneous life as an individual in the spirit and as a citizen in society.
Soren Kierkegaard: Google doodle marks 200th birthday of Danish philosopher, here's what you need to know about him
Kierkegaard is widely considered as the first existentialist philosopher and has influenced the likes of Albert Camus and Franz Kafka
Image may be NSFW. Clik here to view.Soren Kierkegaard: Happy birthday Soren, you're 200 today
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Søren Kierkegaard's 200th birthday has been virtually marked with a Google doodle today. The Danish philosopher - who died in November 1855 aged 42 - is widely considered as the first existentialist philosopher, with many of his works focusing on how life should be lived as a "single individual". Consequently, his work often highlighted the importance of personal choice and commitment and of 'truth as subjectivity'. The Google doodle depicts six characters - five of whom are holding outsized quills - spelling out the search engine giant's name. Two figures each have an arm outstretched, bent at the elbow, and have their heads held up as if contemplating something other than their task. One of the characters also seems to be addressing the sixth figure, standing slightly away, who does not hold a quill.
Image may be NSFW. Clik here to view. Kierkegaard, who was raised as a Lutheran, gained considerable fame for his work in the 1930s and has had an enduring influence on subsequent generations of philosophers and writers. Just some of the artists was have been inspired and influenced by Kierkegaard's notions of angst, despair and the importance of the individual include Albert Camus, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre, W.H Auden, Don DeLillo, Franz Kafka, J.D Salinger and Malcolm Muggeridge.
芮克 孟祥森 1948 - Listening with the Third Ear: The inner experience of a psychoanalyst. New York: Grove Press.
Reik, Theodor (tā'ōdōr rīk) , 1888–1969, American psychologist and author, b. Vienna, Ph.D. Univ. of Vienna, 1912. He was one of Sigmund Freud's earliest and most brilliant students; their association lasted from 1910 to 1938. In Europe, Reik conducted research and lectured at several psychoanalytic institutes before coming (1938) to the United States. He was naturalized in 1944. He founded (1948) the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis. Among his many writings are From Thirty Years with Freud (tr. 1940), Listening with the Third Ear (1948, repr. 1972), The Secret Self (1952), The Search Within (1956, repr. 1968), Of Love and Lust (1957, repr. 1970), Myth and Guilt (1957, repr. 1970), The Compulsion to Confess (1959, repr. 1972), Creation of Woman (1960), The Temptation (1961), Voices from the Inaudible (1964), Curiosities of the Self (1965), and The Many Faces of Sex (1966). Bibliography See the autobiographical Fragments of a Great Confession (1949, repr. 1965).
Reik's psychoanalytic studies include discussions of such writers as Beer-Hofmann, Flaubert, and Schnitzler as well as Shakespeare, Goethe, and Gustav Mahler, to name but a few. He had a unique way of communicating and his writing and conversational style was free associational. His autobiography is to be found in his many works. Among his better known are: Listening with the Third Ear (1948); the monumental Masochism in Modern Man (1949); Surprise and the Psychoanalyst (1935); his recollection of Freud, From Thirty Years with Freud (1940); an autobiographical study, Fragment of a Great Confession (1949); applied psychoanalysis of the Bible in Mystery on the Mountain (1958); anthropology in Ritual (1958); and sexuality in Of Love and Lust (1959), Creation of Woman (1960), and The Psychology of Sex Relations (1961); and music in The Haunting Melody (1960). Toward the end of his life Reik, who grew a beard, resembled the older Freud and lived modestly, surrounded by photographs of Freud from childhood to old age. He died on December 31, 1969, after a long illness.
A Short Life of Kierkegaard is a book by Walter Lowrie, the first edition was published in 1938 by Oxford University Press simply under the title Kierkegaard. The book is notable and influential for being the first English language biography which covers both wider and lesser known areas of Søren Kierkegaard's life, philosophy, and theology. Lowrie was commissioned by the editor of Oxford University PressCharles Williams to write the biography and to translate into English for the first time several of Kierkegaard's seminal works in full, including Either/Or and Philosophical Fragments.[1]
Literary reception
Some of the book's biographical and philosophical details, despite the best available information at the time, are now known to be false, yet Lowrie's examination is sympathetic, as indeed are his translations of Kierkegaard. The reviews of the book enthused about Kierkegaard as a proponent of the individual's worth in the midst of alienation intrinsic to 20th century mass society.[1]
