Has anyone read (or better, found any use in) Kierkegaard's Parables?

Question

Has anyone read (or better, found any use in) Kierkegaard's Parables?

Answer 1

yes

Answer 2

yes.

1.The perversion of speculative philosphy. Kierkegaard was convinced that value inquiry and spirituality could not be futhered through the study of philosophy; hence his return to homely stories.

2.The parable involves indirect communication that provokes self discovery. Those who prefer to "learn about the world" in a direct and controlled way, lose control of their responses when they encounter the parable. The parable carries them, willingly or unwillingly,inward toward undiscovered dimensions of self.



The problem which preoccupied Kierkegaard was that he believed that his contemporaries were spiritually dead.