The long period from the Renaissance to the nineteenth century supplied numerous sources for Kierkegaard’s thought in different fields. The present, rather heterogeneous volume covers the long period from the birth of Savonarola in through the beginning of the nineteenth century and into Kierkegaard’s own time.
The Danish thinker read authors representing vastly different traditions and time periods. Moreover, he also read a diverse range of genres. His interests concerned not just philosophy, theology and literature but also drama and music. The present volume consists of three tomes that are intended to cover Kierkegaard’s sources in these different fields of thought.
Tome I: Philosophy
Tome I is dedicated to the philosophers of the early modern period and the Enlightenment who played a role in shaping Kierkegaard’s intellectual development. He was widely read in German and French philosophy of the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, making reference to the leading rationalist philosophers Descartes, Spinoza and Leibniz in his journals and published works. Fu
Søren Kierkegaard (—)
Søren Kierkegaard is an outsider in the history of philosophy. His peculiar authorship comprises a baffling array of different narrative points of view and disciplinary subject matter, including aesthetic novels, works of psychology and Christian dogmatics, satirical prefaces, philosophical &#;scraps&#; and &#;postscripts,&#; literary reviews, edifying discourses, Christian polemics, and retrospective self-interpretations. His arsenal of rhetoric includes irony, satire, parody, humor, polemic and a dialectical method of &#;indirect communication&#; &#; all designed to deepen the reader’s subjective passionate engagement with ultimate existential issues. Like his role models Socrates and Christ, Kierkegaard takes how one lives one’s life to be the prime criterion of being in the truth. Kierkegaard’s closest literary and philosophical models are Plato, J.G. Hamann, G.E. Lessing, and his teacher of philosophy at the University of Copenhagen Poul Martin Møller, although Goethe, the German Romantics, Hegel, Kant and the logic of Adolf Trendelenburg are also important influences. His prime theological influence is Martin Luther, although his reactions to his Da
Søren Kierkegaard
BIOGRAPHY AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SØREN KIERKEGAARD
By Gordon Marino
One of Søren Aabye Kierkegaard&#;s most celebrated works, Concluding Unscientific Postscript, sold 50 copies in his lifetime. Nevertheless, the 19th-century Danish philosopher was confident that history would offer him a warmer reception than his contemporaries did.
The Swedes were the first to recognize Kierkegaard&#;s importance, followed by the Germans and the French. The English-speaking world knew virtually nothing about Kierkegaard until , when a book of selections were rendered into English. In the late &#;s, Walter Lowrie discovered Kierkegaard and together with David Swenson, awakened the English-speaking world to Kierkegaard&#;s significance. Howard and Edna Hong first translated Kierkegaard&#;s Journals and Papers into English for which they won the National Book Award in In the &#;s, they entered into a contract with Princeton University Press to publish Kierkegaard&#;s Writings. This challenging project was completed in with the publication of the final volume 26, Cumulative Index to Kierkegaard&#;s Writings.
Kierkegaard, whose name in Old Danish means &#;churchyard&#; (
Søren Kierkegaard: A Biography
"The day will come when not only my writings, but precisely my life--the intriguing secret of all the machinery--will be studied and studied." Søren Kierkegaard's remarkable combination of genius and peculiarity made this a fair if arrogant prediction. But Kierkegaard's life has been notoriously hard to study, so complex was the web of fact and fiction in his work. Joakim Garff's biography of Kierkegaard is thus a landmark achievement. A seamless blend of history, philosophy, and psychological insight, all conveyed with novelistic verve, this is the most comprehensive and penetrating account yet written of the life and works of the enigmatic Dane who changed the course of intellectual history.
Garff portrays Kierkegaard not as the all-controlling impresario behind some of the most important works of modern philosophy and religious thought--books credited with founding existentialism and prefiguring postmodernism--but 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 t
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