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A short life of Kierkegaard

A small, insignificant-looking intellectual with absurdly long legs, Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) was a veritable Hans Christian Andersen caricature of a man. A strange combination of witty cosmopolite and melancholy introvert, he spent years writing under a series of fantastical pseudonyms, lavishing all the splendor of his magnificent mind on a seldom-appreciative world. He had a tragic love affair with a young girl, was dominated by an unforgettable Old Testament father, fought a sensational literary duel with a popular satiric magazine, and died in the midst of a violent quarrel with t

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  • "A small, insignificant-looking intellectual with absurdly long legs, Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) was a veritable Hans Christian Andersen caricature of a man. A strange combination of witty cosmopolite and melancholy introvert, he spent years writing under a series of fantastical pseudonyms, lavishing all the splendor of his magnificent mind on a seldom-appreciative world. He had a tragic love affair with a young girl, was dominated by an unforgettable Old Testament father, fought a sensational literary duel with a popular satiric magazine, and died in the midst of a violent quarrel with t"@en
  • ""A small, insignificant-looking intellectual with absurdly long legs, Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) was a veritable Hans Christian Andersen caricature of a man. A strange combination of witty cosmopolite and melancholy introvert, he spent years writing under a series of fantastical pseudonyms, lavishing all the splendor of his magnificent mind on a seldom-appreciative world. He had a tragic love affair with a young girl, was dominated by an unforgettable Old Testament father, fought a sensational literary duel with a popular satiric magazine, and died in the midst of a violent quarrel with the state church for which he had once studied theology. Yet this iconoclast produced a number of brilliant books that have profoundly influenced modern thought."
  • "In this classic biography, the celebrated Kierkegaard translator Walter Lowrie presents a charming and warmly appreciative introduction to the life and work of the great Danish writer. Lowrie tells the story of Kierkegaard's emotionally turbulent life with a keen sense of drama and an acute understanding of how his life shaped his thought. The result is a wonderfully informative and entertaining portrait of one of the most important thinkers of the past two centuries. This edition also includes Lowrie's wry essay "How Kierkegaard Got into English," which tells the improbable story of how Lowrie became one of Kierkegaard's principal English translators despite not learning Danish until he was in his 60s, as well as a new introduction by Kierkegaard scholar Alastair Hannay."--Pub. desc."
  • "This little book, being simply a biography, may perhaps be more lucid than the other, in which it was sometimes difficult to see the forest for the trees. Having devoted myself for a month last year to the unaccustomed task of writing a mystery story, I may perhaps have learned to make the big events in S.K's life more thrilling than they were. And perhaps after spending the last six years translating the greater part of S.K's works I have learned to know him better than I did at first. At all events, this little book is not merely an abstract or condensation of the bigger one. It has been written afresh from beginning to end, and barely half a page here and there has been copied- except, of course, the quotations from S.K., and they have been carefully revised."
  • ""A small, insignificant-looking intellectual with absurdly long legs, Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) was a veritable Hans Christian Andersen caricature of a man. A strange combination of witty cosmopolite and melancholy introvert, he spent years writing under a series of fantastical pseudonyms, lavishing all the splendor of his magnificent mind on a seldom-appreciative world. He had a tragic love affair with a young girl, was dominated by an unforgettable Old Testament father, fought a sensational literary duel with a popular satiric magazine, and died in the midst of a violent quarrel with the state church for which he had once studied theology. Yet this iconoclast produced a number of brilliant books that have profoundly influenced modern thought. In this classic biography, the celebrated Kierkegaard translator Walter Lowrie presents a charming and warmly appreciative introduction to the life and work of the great Danish writer. Lowrie tells the story of Kierkegaard's emotionally turbulent life with a keen sense of drama and an acute understanding of how his life shaped his thought. The result is a wonderfully informative and entertaining portrait of one of the most important thinkers of the past two centuries. This edition also includes Lowrie's wry essay 'How Kierkegaard got into English', which tells the improbable story of how Lowrie became one of Kierkegaard's principal English translators despite not learning Danish until he was in his 60s, as well as a new introduction by Kierkegaard scholar Alastair Hannay"--provided by publisher."@en

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  • "Livres électroniques"
  • "Biografies"
  • "Biografieën (vorm)"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Biography"@en
  • "Biography"
  • "Persoonsbibliografieën (vorm)"
  • "Biographie"

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  • "A short life of Kierkegaard : with Lowrie's essay "How Kierkegaard got into English""
  • "Das Leben Sören Kierkegaards"
  • "Das Leben Sören Kierkegaard"
  • "A short life of Kierkegaard"
  • "Das Leben Soren Kierkegaards"
  • "A short life of Kierkegaard"@en
  • "A short life of Kierkegaard : with Lowrie's essay how Kierkegaard got into english and a new introduction by Alastair Hannay"
  • "Ashort life of Kierkegaard"
  • "A Short Life of Kierkergaard"
  • "K'irŭk'egorŭ p'yŏngjŏn : K'irŭk'egorŭ ŭi saengae wa sasang"
  • "키르케고르 평전 : 키르케고르의 생애와 사상"
  • "A Short life of Kierkegaard"
  • "A short life of kierkegaard"@en
  • "A short life of Kierkegaard with Lowrie's essay "How Kierkegaard got into English""
  • "A short life of Kierkegaard with Lowrie's essay "How Kierkegaard got into English""@en
  • "Short Life of Kierkegaard (New in Paperback)"@en
  • "A short life of Kierkegaard : with Lowrie's essay "How Kierkegaard got into English" and a new introduction by Alastair Hannay"
  • "A Short Life of Kierkegaard"@en
  • "A Short Life of Kierkegaard"
  • "Das Leben Sören Kierkegårds"
  • "Short Life of Kierkegaard"@en
  • "Das leben Søren Kierkegaards"

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