EAN: 9780141984438

PHILOSOPHER OF THE HEART - CLARE CARLISLE KARTO...

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' ObserverSøren 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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