Soren Kierkegaard on The Single Individual 1847
Channel: Craig Campbell
Date: 04/08/2014

Soren Aaby Kierkegaard was a Christian layman who questioned the power of journalism and the authority of "the crowd" in this essay that was written in 1846. He expanded this idea in his 1847 book, Upbuilding Discourses in Various Occasions which was first translated by Douglas V. Steere as Purity of Heart is to Will One Thing. I enjoyed reading Kierkegaard's short test as well as the longer version of the same material.

Charles K Bellinger translated the short work in 1999. 
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Crowd_is_Untruth

Purity of Heart can be found here
http://www.religion-online.org/showbook.asp?title=2523

Many readers are likely to agree with the observation of the Danish scholar Eduard Geismar on Part One of Upbuilding Discourses in Various Spirits: “I am of the opinion that nothing of what he has written is to such a degree before the face of God. Anyone who really wants to understand Kierkegaard does well to begin with it.” Howard V. Hong,