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First American edition. |
| Description |
xx, 339 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-319) and index. |
| Contents |
The life of Søren Kierkegaard: key events and major publications -- Part 1. May 1843: return journey. Living the question of existence ; 'My regine!' ; In defiance of pseudo-philosophers ; Following Abraham home -- Part 2. 1848-1813: life understood backwards. Learning to be human: lesson one ; 'Come unto me' ; Aesthetic education ; Living without a life-view ; The Socrates of Christendom ; Repetition: a new philosophy of life ; How to be anxious ; Life's labyrinth -- Part 3. 1849-1855: life lived forwards. At odds with the world ; 'This is how it is with me' ; The last battle -- Kierkegaard's afterlife. |
| Summary |
Philosopher of the Heart is the groundbreaking biography of renowned existentialist Søren Kierkegaard's life and creativity, and a searching exploration of how to be a human being in the world. Søren Kierkegaard is one of the most passionate and challenging of all modern philosophers, and is often regarded as the founder of existentialism. Over about a decade in the 1840s and 1850s, writings poured from his pen pursuing the question of existence--how to be a human being in the world?--while exploring the possibilities of Christianity and confronting the failures of its institutional manifestation around him. Much of his creativity sprang from his relationship with the young woman whom he promised to marry, then left to devote himself to writing, a relationship which remained decisive for the rest of his life. He deliberately lived in the swim of human life in Copenhagen, but alone, and died exhausted in 1855 at the age of 42, bequeathing his remarkable writings to his erstwhile fiane. Clare Carlisle's innovative and moving biography writes Kierkegaard's life as far as possible from his own perspective, to convey what it was like actually being this Socrates of Christendom--as he put it, living life forwards yet only understanding it backwards. |
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Kierkegaard, Søren, 1813-1855.
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Philosophers -- Denmark -- Biography.
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Kierkegaard, Søren, 1813-1855. (OCoLC)fst00037558
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Philosophers. (OCoLC)fst01060746
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Denmark. (OCoLC)fst01204558
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
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Biographies.
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| ISBN |
0374231184 (hardcover) |
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9780374231187 (hardcover) |
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9781250798428 (paperback) |
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1250798426 (paperback) |
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