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Philosopher of the Heart - The Restless Life of Soren Kierkegaard (Hardcover)
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Philosopher of the Heart - The Restless Life of Soren Kierkegaard (Hardcover)
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Selected as a Book of the Year in The Times Literary Supplement
'This lucid and riveting new biography at once rescuses Kierkegaard
from the scholars and shows why he is such an intriguing and useful
figure' Observer Soren Kierkegaard, one of the most passionate and
challenging of modern philosophers, is now celebrated as the father
of existentialism - yet his contemporaries described him as a
philosopher of the heart. Over about a decade in the 1840s and
1850s, writings poured from his pen analysing love and suffering,
courage and anxiety, religious longing and defiance, and forging a
new philosophical style rooted in the inward drama of being human.
As Christianity seemed to sleepwalk through a changing world,
Kierkegaard dazzlingly revealed its spiritual power while exposing
the poverty of official religion. His restless creativity was
spurred on by his own failures: his relationship with the young
woman whom he promised to marry, then left to devote himself to
writing, haunted him throughout his life. Though tormented by the
pressures of celebrity, he deliberately lived amidst the crowds in
Copenhagen, known by everyone but, he felt, understood by no one.
When he collapsed exhausted at the age of 42, he was still pursuing
the question of existence: how to be a human being in this world?
Clare Carlisle's innovative and moving biography writes
Kierkegaard's remarkable life as far as possible from his own
perspective, conveying what it was like to be this Socrates of
Christendom - as he put it, living life forwards yet only
understanding it backwards.
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