Søren Kierkegaard : a biography /

Garff, Joakim,

Søren Kierkegaard : a biography / Joakim Garff ; translated by Bruce H. Kirmmse. - Princeton : Princeton University Press, (c)2005. - 1 online resource (894 pages) : illustrations, maps

Includes bibliographies and index.

Cover; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; Maps; Preface; Foreword to the English-Language Edition; Translator's Preface and Acknowledgments; Note to the Paperback Edition; Part One; 1813-1834; The Little Fork; Warping; Søren Sock; Two Weddings and a Fire; Studiosus Severinus; Alma Mater; Underground Copenhagen; The Black Sheep; 1835; The Still Voices of the Dead; The Summer of 1835 in Gilleleje; "To Find the Idea for Which I Am Willing to Live and Die"; 1836; "A Somersault into the Siberia of Freedom of the Press"; Within the Heibergs' Charmed Circle; Studiosus Faustus. The Battle between the Old and the New Soap-CellarsPoul Martin Møller; "Sketches of Moral Nature"-Affectation and Self-Deception; "Backstage Practice"; 1837; Storm and Stress?; Maria; Bringing Gloom to Rented Rooms; "Dear Emil!! You, My Friend, the Only One"; Reading Binge; 1838; "There Is an Indescribable Joy"; Death of a Merchant; "The Great Earthquake"; From the Papers of One Still Living; 1839; The Rich Young Man; The Translator; "My Reading for the Examinations Is the Longest Parenthesis"; A Dandy on a Pilgrimage; Part Two; 1840; Regine-in Memoriam; Miss O. From the Papers of One Already DeadThe Time of Terrors; "She Chooses the Shriek, I Choose the Pain"; 1841; On the Concept of Irony; 1842; Stark Naked in Berlin; "The Aesthetic Is Above All My Element"; The Incidental Tourist; 1843; Either/Or; "A Monster of a Book"; Literary Exile; Spiritual Eroticism; Regine's Nod; Berlin Again; Repetition; "Long Live the Post Horn!"; To Become Oneself Again Is to Become Someone Else; Reality Intervenes; 1:50; The Retracted Text; Fear and Trembling; Abraham and the Knife: Agnete and Farinelli; "A Crevice through Which the Infinite Peeped Out"; 1844. The Concept of AnxietyCaptivating Anxiety-Pages from a Seducer's Textbook; The Seduction's Diary; Oh, to Write a Preface; Reviews; Israel Levin; "Come Over and See Me for a Bit"; To Have Faith Is Always to Expect the Joyous, the Happy, the Good; 1845; "Big Enough to Be a Major City"; "I Came Close to Dancing with Them"; "People Bath"; "Yes, of Course, I Am an Aristocrat-"; "I Think Grundtvig Is Nonsense"; Kierkegaard in Church; "People Think I'm a Hack Writer"; Stages on Life's Way; The Inserted Passages; Writing Samples; Exit Heiberg; Postscript: Kierkegaard; Part Three; 1846. Victor Eremita's AdmirersThe Corsair-"A Devil of a Paper"; Comic Composition and Goldschmidt's Flashy Jacket; "I Am a Jew. What Am I Doing among You?"; Malice in a Macintosh: Peder Ludvig Møller; "A Visit to Sorø"; "Would Only That I Might Soon Appear in The Corsair"; The Corsair's Salvo; Møller's Postscript to Kierkegaard's Postscript; Admiration and Envy: When One Word Leads to Another; The Squint-Eyed Hunchback; The Great Reversal; "The School of Abuse"; The Neighbors across the Way; "S. Kjerkegaard and His Reviewers"; "This Sweat-Soaked, Stifling Cloak of Mush That Is the Body."

Garff offers a detailed and incisive portrait of Søoren Kierkegaard, the philosopher, whose works had an enormous influence upon existentialism and postmodernism.



9781400849604


Kierkegaard, Søren, 1813-1855.
Kierkegaard, Soren, 1813-1855.


Philosophy-Ancient
Philosophers--Denmark.
Philosophers--Denmark--Biography.


Electronic Books.

B4377 / .S646 2005 B4377