ABSTRACT
Both Nietzsche and Kierkegaard must be commended for their brilliant and scintillating critiques of nineteenth-century excesses, their passion against mediocrity and theoretical abstraction, their insistence that, whatever it means to be human, it inevitably involves “a process of becoming,”1 their honesty to confront the brutalities, suffering, and incongruities of existence, their recognition of the uses and abuses of a personal hermeneutic by which people “fool one another into thinking that what occurred is what they wanted,”2 and their integrity to resist the status quo, whether political, intellectual, or ecclesiastical.
