Soren Kierkegaard: a biography
- Type Others
- Publisher PRINCETON
- Author/s Garff, Joakim
- ISBN13 9780691091655
- ISBN10 069109165X
- Pages 867
- Published 2005
Sections
Contemporary PhilosophySoren Kierkegaard: a biography
Garff portrays Kierkegaard not as the all-controlling impresario behind some of the most important works of modern philosophy and religious thoughtbooks credited with founding existentialism and prefiguring postmodernismbut rather as a man whose writings came to control him. Kierkegaard saw himself as a vessel for his writings, a tool in the hand of God, and eventually as a martyr singled out to call for the end of "Christendom." Garff explores the events and relationships that formed Kierkegaard, including his guilt-ridden relationship with his father, his rivalry with his brother, and his famously tortured relationship with his fiancee Regine Olsen. He recreates the squalor and splendor of Golden Age Copenhagen and the intellectual milieu in which Kierkegaard found himself increasingly embattled and mercilessly caricatured.
Acclaimed as a major cultural event on its publication in Denmark in 2000, this book, here presented in an exceptionally crisp and elegant translation, will be the definitive account of Kierkegaard's life for years to come.
- Type Others
- Publisher PRINCETON
- Author/s Garff, Joakim
- ISBN13 9780691091655
- ISBN10 069109165X
- Pages 867
- Published 2005