The Present Age: Kierkegaard’s Warning About Our Hollow Times

The Present Age was published in 1846 by Søren Kierkegaard. He discusses the philosophical implications of a society dominated by mass media, foreseeing the rise of twenty-four hour news and social media, it examines the philosophical implications of a culture of endless, inconsequential commentary and debate – a society eerily similar to our own. While a revolutionary age is an action of action, the present age is one of understanding and reflection, without passion. It is the age of advertisement and publicity. Nothing ever happens but there is immediate publicity everywhere, as well as an age of anticipation when even recognition is received in advance. “There is no more action or decision in our day than there is perilous delight in swimming in shallow waters.” 📨 Free newsletter: https://eternalisedofficial.com/subscribe ⭐ Support this channel: https://www.patreon.com/eternalised 📨 Subscribe to newsletter: https://eternalisedofficial.com/subscribe 📺 YouTube Member Perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqos1tl0RntucGGtPXNxkkA/join ☕ Donate a Coffee: https://ko-fi.com/eternalised 📘 PayPal https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/eternalisedofficial 🛒 Official Merch: https://eternalised.creator-spring.com 📚 My Personal Library: https://eternalisedofficial.com/library ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📚 Recommended Reading (High Quality and Best Translations) 📘 The Book ▶ The Present Age (1846) https://amzn.to/2VsfyDm 📚 Other Recommended Reading (High Quality and Best Translations) ▶ Either/Or (1843) https://amzn.to/3dAg9YP ▶ Fear and Trembling (1843) https://amzn.to/3jUGhPx ▶ The Concept of Anxiety (1844) https://amzn.to/3mlwJjh ▶ Stages on Life's Way (1845) https://amzn.to/3wtaJYb ▶ Works of Love (1847) https://amzn.to/31KcwtV ▶ The Sickness unto Death (1849) https://amzn.to/3j8oLrd ▶ The Lily of the Field and the Bird of the Air (1849) https://amzn.to/3ujEitt 🎧 Prefer Audiobooks? Get a 30-day Audible Plus FREE trial: ▶ https://amzn.to/332zPzN ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📺 Odysee ➔ https://odysee.com/@eternalised 📺 Rumble ➔ https://rumble.com/c/Eternalised 🐦 Twitter ➔ https://twitter.com/eternalised1 📷 Instagram ➔ https://www.instagram.com/eternalised_official 📘 Facebook ➔ https://www.facebook.com/eternalised 🎧 Podcast ➔ https://anchor.fm/eternalised ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⌛ Timestamps 0:00 Introduction 2:20 Ice Skater Analogy 3:40 Reflective Tension 5:00 Ressentiment 6:22 Levelling 7:12 The Public 8:26 The Leap ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📝 Sources - The Present Age (1846) – Søren Kierkegaard. Translation by Dru. Edition: Resistance Library - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leveling_(philosophy) - <