Clare Carlisle’s wonderful new biography of Søren Kierkegaard is not an easy read. If you are simply looking for the facts of Kierkegaard’s life, Alastair Hannay’s Kierkegaard: A Biography or Stephen ...
Joakim Garff’s justly acclaimed biography of Kierkegaard, published in English in the year marking the 200th anniversary of the birth of Hans Christian Andersen, invites us into the literary world of ...
Early in life, Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard was bestowed the nickname gaflen, or “fork,” for his talent at detecting weakness in others — and his taste for prodding at it. Recently, that ...
FEAR AND TREMBLING: Søren Kierkegaard did not make it easy for the biographer Joakim Garff, an associate professor at the University of Copenhagen’s Søren Kierkegaard Research Center. After all, the ...
Søren Kierkegaard: A Biography, by Joachim Garff, translated by Bruce H. Kirmmse. 867 pages, Princeton University Press, $35 Søren Kierkegaard: A Biography, published in 2000 in Danish and translated ...
Unlike other philosophers of his time, Soren Kierkegaard was concerned with the individual’s sense of spiritual fulfillment and relationship to God. (Photo by Popperfoto via Getty Images/Getty Images) ...
When Søren Kierkegaard wrote: “It is quite true what philosophy says, that life must be understood backward. But then one forgets the other principle, that it must be lived forward”, he was creating ...
Hot Type (The Chronicle, September 16) notes that Peter Tudvad made a generous offer to help Joakim Garff correct the errors in the biography of Søren Kierkegaard. ... It neglects to mention, however, ...
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