Kierkegaard's "The Present Age: On the Death of Rebellion"

This text largely follows the same themes of the problems inherent in global public opinion introduced in Ibsen's Enemy of the People, however, Kierkegaard expands on his points in essay form instead of dramatising it as a play. This allows him to elaborate on his worldview, however, I wonder if Ibsen's dramatisation may have been a more effective lesson.

Kierkegaard introduces the topic of a group's mentality by commenting on the smallest of groups, the relationship between two people.

Although The Present Age: On the Death of Rebellion is a wonderfully cohesive essay, like Marcus Aurelius's "Meditations" single phrases seemed to jumped off the page to speak to me. This is my favourite:

"An age without passion has no values, and everything is transformed into representational ideas" (11)

Works Cited:
Kierkegaard, Søren. The Present Age: On the Death of Rebellion. Trans. Alexander Dru. New York: Harper Perennial Modern Thought, 2010. Print.