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Kierkegaard : a biography

Author: Alastair Hannay
Publisher: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"Written by one of the world's preeminent authorities on Kierkegaard, this biography in the first to reveal the delicate imbrication of Kierkegaard's life and thought. To grasp the importance and influence of Kierkegaard's thought far beyond his native Denmark, it is necessary to trace the many factors that led this gifted but (according to his headmaster) "exceedingly childish youth" to grapple with traditional  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Biography
Biographies
Named Person: Søren Kierkegaard; Søren Kierkegaard; Søren Kierkegaard
Material Type: Biography, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Alastair Hannay
ISBN: 0521560772 9780521560771
OCLC Number: 45363414
Description: xvi, 496 p. : ill., [8] p. of plates ; 24 cm.
Contents: From Street to Salon: First Blood --
The Matter with Soren --
A Faustian Phase --
The Wild Geese Fly --
The Dead and the Living: Debut --
Serious about Irony: The Dissertation --
The Breach and Berlin: Either/Or --
Faith and Tragic Heroism --
More to Being --
Notabene's Meditation --
Completing the Stages --
Concluding Business --
Reviewing the Age --
Refashioning the Exterior --
Works of Love --
Defining the Deed --
Mischievous Martyr --
'Poor Kierkegaard'?
Responsibility: Alastair Hannay.
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Abstract:

"Written by one of the world's preeminent authorities on Kierkegaard, this biography in the first to reveal the delicate imbrication of Kierkegaard's life and thought. To grasp the importance and influence of Kierkegaard's thought far beyond his native Denmark, it is necessary to trace the many factors that led this gifted but (according to his headmaster) "exceedingly childish youth" to grapple with traditional philosophical problems and religious themes in a way that later generations would recognize as amounting to a philosophical revolution." "This book offers a narrative account that will be of particular interest to philosophers, literary theorists, intellectual historians, and scholars of religious studies as well as to any nonspecialist looking for an authoritative guide to the life and work of one of the most original and fascinating figures in Western philosophy."--Jacket.

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