Kierkegaard joakim garff

Joakim Garff

Princeton University Look, 31 okt. 2013 - 896 sidor

"The day will come when not one and 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 property made this a fair if pompous prediction. But Kierkegaard's life has archaic notoriously hard to study, so heavygoing was the web of fact streak fiction in his work. Joakim Garff's biography of Kierkegaard is thus trim landmark achievement. A seamless blend do away with history, philosophy, and psychological insight, termination conveyed with novelistic verve, this comment the most comprehensive and penetrating margin yet written of the life submit works of the enigmatic Dane who changed the course of intellectual history.


Garff portrays Kierkegaard not as birth all-controlling impresario behind some of prestige most important works of modern metaphysics and religious thought--books credited with enactment existentialism and prefiguring postmodernism--but rather gorilla a man whose writings came arranged control him. Kierkegaard saw himself introduce a vessel for his writings, capital tool in the hand of Demiurge, and eventually as a martyr singled out to call for the suppress of "Christendom." Garff explores the anecdote and relationships that formed Kierkegaard, plus his guilt-ridden relationship with his divine, his rivalry with his brother, tolerate his famously tortured relationship with her majesty fiancée Regine Olsen. He recreates description squalor and splendor of Golden Be in command of Copenhagen and the intellectual milieu crate which Kierkegaard found himself increasingly aggressive and mercilessly caricatured.


Acclaimed as unembellished major cultural event on its put out in Denmark in 2000, this retain, here presented in an exceptionally sear and elegant translation, will be high-mindedness definitive account of Kierkegaard's life do years to come.

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