Do you know anything about Martha Nussbaum or Soren Kierkegaard?

Question

Will you please tell me? Did you read one of their books and like it? Or hate it?

Answer 1

I also like Kierkegaard. As I turn my head to look upon one of my bookshelves I see five Kierkegaard books. Here's a blurb from my blog:

For Kierkegaard, no amount of objective information could satisfy his thirst. The solution to the problem of understanding oneself in existence, if a solution could be found at all, had to come from the inner reaches of ones own subjectivity. “I contemplate the order of nature in hope of finding God, and I see omnipotence and wisdom,” he said, “but I also see much else that disturbs my mind and excites anxiety.” What he saw was that all the world’s wisdom did not substitute for the inward passion used to embrace it. In fact, nothing objective could be said about that kind of truth. The existing thinker’s problem was a subjective problem. Everything else, according to Kierkegaard, was just so much “objective uncertainty.”

Answer 2

Kierkegaard is a genius!

Answer 3

I absolutely adore Kierkegaard mainly because if you read about his life then you see he's such a tragic soul. "Either/Or" is his magnum opus, and is WELL worth a read and "Fear and Trembling" is another favourite. You can read clearly in both the embryo ideas of existentialism.