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nomadreid
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I am interpreting the title of this rubric rather broadly; if a mentor decides that the question is inappropriate, then I will not object to it being removed.
In his book "Irrational Man", William Barrett starts Chapter 1, "The story is told by Kierkegaard of the absent-minded man so abstracted from his own life that he hardly knows he exists until, one fine morning, he wakes up to find himself dead." The quote is all over the Internet but I cannot find a source in the book itself (it is in the public domain: https://archive.org/details/irrationalman_201911/mode/2up?view=theater&q=story) telling me which story. Given that Kierkegaard wrote a lot, I would not know where to start to look for the original quote, assuming that Barret did not make this up. (I read German, if that is any help.) If anyone can point me in the right direction, then I would appreciate it.
In his book "Irrational Man", William Barrett starts Chapter 1, "The story is told by Kierkegaard of the absent-minded man so abstracted from his own life that he hardly knows he exists until, one fine morning, he wakes up to find himself dead." The quote is all over the Internet but I cannot find a source in the book itself (it is in the public domain: https://archive.org/details/irrationalman_201911/mode/2up?view=theater&q=story) telling me which story. Given that Kierkegaard wrote a lot, I would not know where to start to look for the original quote, assuming that Barret did not make this up. (I read German, if that is any help.) If anyone can point me in the right direction, then I would appreciate it.
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