Philosopher of the Heart: The Restless Life of Søren Kierkegaard
Autor Clare Carlisleen Limba Engleză Hardback – 4 apr 2019
'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
Søren 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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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780241283585
ISBN-10: 0241283582
Pagini: 368
Dimensiuni: 162 x 240 x 34 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Allen Lane
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0241283582
Pagini: 368
Dimensiuni: 162 x 240 x 34 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Allen Lane
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Notă biografică
Clare
Carlisleis
Reader
in
Philosophy
and
Theology
at
King's
College,
London.
She
is
a
regular
contributor
to
theTimes
Literary
Supplementand
has
written
dozens
of
articles
on
philosophy
for
theGuardian.
Her
last
book,On
Habit,
was
named
Outstanding
Academic
Title
of
2014
byChoice,
and
she
has
recently
edited
George
Eliot's
translation
of
Spinoza'sEthics.
She
grew
up
in
Manchester,
studied
philosophy
and
theology
at
Cambridge,
and
now
lives
in
Hackney.
Recenzii
This
lucid
and
riveting
new
biography
at
once
rescues
Kierkegaard
from
the
scholars
and
makes
it
abundantly
clear
why
he
is
such
an
intriguing
and
useful
figure:
that
we
want,
above
all,
to
be
reassured
about
our
lives
rather
than
find
out
what
about
our
lives
matters
to
us.
...
Carlisle
writes
with
verve
and
sympathy.
Kierkegaard's
life
is
exemplary,
as
Carlisle
shows
with
such
plain
and
accessible
eloquence
Engrossing ... Carlisle has pulled off the feat of writing a truly Kierkegaardian biography of Kierkegaard
It is a testimony to her skill that, as in a great novel, the portrayal of her protagonist is so vivid ... She wonderfully conveys how, pelican-like, Kierkegaard tore his philosophy from his own breast
Clare Carlisle has an especially deep admiration of Kierkegaard and has studied his work with an intensity that has rarely been matched. Her book, she writes, "takes its shape from the Kierkegaardian question about how to be a human being in the world"
Readable and entertaining
Philosopher of the Heartenacts Kierkegaard's audacity and verve in thinking and writing, his "new way of doing philosophy", in a thrillingly inward and intimate style
One of the best biographies of modern masters by a new generation
Carlisle's biography is impressively well researched, and brings its subject vividly alive
Carlisle enters into a closer than ever relationship with her subject. She gives the reader a vivid sense of what Kierkegaard meant ... It is an excellently told story in which the author weaves familiar and less familiar details of Kierkegaard's life together in a compelling framework that brings this explorer of anxiety and despair to life as never before.
Engrossing ... Carlisle has pulled off the feat of writing a truly Kierkegaardian biography of Kierkegaard
It is a testimony to her skill that, as in a great novel, the portrayal of her protagonist is so vivid ... She wonderfully conveys how, pelican-like, Kierkegaard tore his philosophy from his own breast
Clare Carlisle has an especially deep admiration of Kierkegaard and has studied his work with an intensity that has rarely been matched. Her book, she writes, "takes its shape from the Kierkegaardian question about how to be a human being in the world"
Readable and entertaining
Philosopher of the Heartenacts Kierkegaard's audacity and verve in thinking and writing, his "new way of doing philosophy", in a thrillingly inward and intimate style
One of the best biographies of modern masters by a new generation
Carlisle's biography is impressively well researched, and brings its subject vividly alive
Carlisle enters into a closer than ever relationship with her subject. She gives the reader a vivid sense of what Kierkegaard meant ... It is an excellently told story in which the author weaves familiar and less familiar details of Kierkegaard's life together in a compelling framework that brings this explorer of anxiety and despair to life as never before.