All 3 Uses of
Kierkegaard
in
The Fault in Our Stars
- All the rooms in the Hotel Filosoof were named after filosoofers: Mom and I were staying on the ground floor in the Kierkegaard; Augustus was on the floor above us, in the Heidegger.
p. 157.4Kierkegaard = Danish philosopher who is generally considered. along with Nietzsche, to be a founder of existentialism (1813-1855)
- Past the equipment, there was a dusty old paisley chair with a sagging seat, a desk, and a bookshelf above the bed containing the collected works of Soren Kierkegaard.
p. 157.7 *Soren Kierkegaard = Danish philosopher who is generally considered. along with Nietzsche, to be a founder of existentialism
- We arrived in my room, the Kierkegaard.
p. 213.3Kierkegaard = named after the Danish philosopher who is generally considered, along with Nietzsche, to be a founder of existentialism