By Walter Lowrie
ISBN-10: 0691019576
ISBN-13: 9780691019574
ISBN-10: 0691071632
ISBN-13: 9780691071633
A small, insignificant-looking highbrow with absurdly lengthy legs, Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) used to be a veritable Hans Christian Andersen cartoon of a guy. a wierd blend of witty cosmopolite and depression introvert, he spent years writing lower than a chain of fantastical pseudonyms, lavishing all of the elegance of his exceptional brain on a seldom-appreciative global. He had a sad love affair with a tender woman, was once ruled by way of an unforgettable outdated testomony father, fought a sensational literary duel with a well-liked satiric journal, and died in the middle of a violent quarrel with the nation church for which he had as soon as studied theology. but this iconoclast produced a few awesome books that experience profoundly stimulated smooth thought.
during this vintage biography, the distinguished Kierkegaard translator Walter Lowrie offers a captivating and warmly appreciative advent to the existence and paintings of the nice Danish author. Lowrie tells the tale of Kierkegaard's emotionally turbulent lifestyles with a prepared experience of drama and an acute figuring out of the way his existence formed his notion. the result's a superbly informative and unique portrait of 1 of crucial thinkers of the earlier centuries. This version additionally comprises Lowrie's wry essay "How Kierkegaard bought into English," which tells the inconceivable tale of the way Lowrie turned considered one of Kierkegaard's relevant English translators regardless of no longer studying Danish until eventually he used to be in his 60s, in addition to a brand new advent via Kierkegaard student Alastair Hannay.
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