BOOK RELEASE IN THE AUTUMN 2026:

RESPIRATIO – Kierkegaard on the Art of Living

The authorship of Søren Kierkegaard is fundamentally misunderstood.

What he feared the most has happened. His peculiar literary art has been turned into scholarly knowledge and scientific discussion.

RESPIRATIO  wants to clear up this misunderstanding and give you a chance to experience in your own life! … with body, soul and spirit! … what Kierkegaard calls the true art of living.

You have to somatically experience it to understand it.

This book wants to inspire you to explore for yourself what it is to live artistically, to live as a human being, as a living work of art … to live with an eternity of freedom and passion in the moment … to dance with life.

For if you just once dance the waltz of the moment, then you’ve lived.

RESPIRATIO is an attempt at what Kierkegaard calls divine satire and what he calls artistic sharing. His ever-inspiring literary art is presented in a new visual universe and in vivid new translations, faithful not only to the meaning but to the musicality, humor and spoken rhythm of the original Danish.

RESPIRATIO wants to revive some of Kierkegaard’s most poetic, passionate and absurdly funny passages – not as philosophy to be studied, but as something to be experienced … not as theory, but as something to be lived.

Format: A large-format illustrated work in two volumes.

Language: Easily accessible, how-a-Dane-speaks-it English.

Warning: Contains difficulties.

Read an essay about why this book is called for – or don’t.