Essential prerequisite reading?

>>9923098
Hegel.
I just went straight to Fear and Trembling and it went well enough. Kierkegaard's works do use the dialectic quite a bit, though, so now I'm going back and hitting up Hegel so I can understand everything properly.

>>9923098
The fucking bible

>>9923134
unironically this

>>9923134
>>9923143

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Just dive in.

"Although he had been a student for a few years, Johannes had done relatively little reading, especially for a student. [...] At times, a title would tempt him, and he would go to the book gladly and expectantly, but, lo and behold, it would discuss many other things, least of all that which one would have expected. If at length he worked his way little by little through to what the title had justified his searching for, the thought process would frequently be interrupted and the matter left undecided. He was often annoyed to find so much attention paid to what appeared to him to be incidentals. The investigation would be interrupted in order to correct one or another singular opinion advanced by some author totally unknown to him. For him to understand this digression properly would require a prior reading of that man’s book. That in turn perhaps would presuppose others etc. He also thought he observed that the reason for incorporating a particular opinion of a particular author would be a very peculiar one: because he lived in the same city as the writer, because he wrote in the same journal, etc. He did not always find rigorous, dialectical movement; he sadly missed the wonderful sport of dialectic, its puzzling surprises. After having made several attempts, he gave up reading."
- SK, philosophical fragments

>>9923235
Is Johannes supposed to be your average defeatist?