Time: Wed 13 May 2026, at 15:00

Place: Center of Aesthetics and Aesthetics Education, No. 56 Yannanyuan Garden, Peking University

Speaker: WANG Qi, Institute of Philosophy, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

This is the 2th event of the Classics of Continental Philosophy, Season 5 of “Pindu” Lecture Series.

Abstract:

Both Søren Kierkegaard and Friedrich Nietzsche have, in different eras, been regarded as pioneers of existentialism and prophets of postmodernity. Shaped by the Lutheran tradition, the two nineteenth-century European thinkers share considerable space for philosophical dialogue.

This lecture will draw on selected passages from Thus Spoke Zarathustra and attempt a Kierkegaardian interpretation of them. It aims to reveal how these two thinkers—who never met—might, despite their differences, both challenge and complement one another, thereby constructing a more multidimensional picture of nineteenth-century European philosophy.