Here is an engaging and enjoyable alternative to the more solemn
introductions to Soren Kierkegaard that are currently
available:"The Laughter is on My Side" entices us into
Kierkegaard's way of looking at the world. Skillfully clearing a
path to the heart of Kierkegaard's writings for those who may be
unfamiliar with the great Danish thinker, Roger Poole and Henrik
Stangerup rearrange some of his most pleasurable and most readable
passages to form an entertaining "text-narrative"--not a selection
in the ordinary sense but an innovating presentation that tells a
new story. The book replaces the inaccessible Kierkegaard of
philosophical legend with an ironic, witty, shrewdly observant
writer, writing for the amusement of writing, and not for the
grimmer satisfactions of instructing or upbraiding. Above all, the
Kierkegaard revealed by Poole and Stangerup becomes, in the deepest
sense, our contemporary.
Taking its title from the young Kierkegaard's nickname, "The
Fork," the first section of the work is full of urbane and erotic
materials and has much to say about his famous broken engagement to
Regine Olsen. A section called "Women" will be of special interest
to feminists, particularly the three discourses from the Symposium
section of "Stages on Life's Way." "The Midnight Hour" presents
Kierkegaard's most anguished and existential passages: "Do you not
know there comes a midnight when everyone has to throw off his
mask? Do you think you can slip away a little before midnight in
order to avoid this?" Lastly, "1848:1984 presents Kierkegaarde as
an incisive and relevant political thinker in a way that has never
been attempted before.
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