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Encounters with Kierkegaard
A Life as Seen by His Contemporaries
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1996
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-01106-6 (ISBN)
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-01106-6 (ISBN)
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This work aims to provide an understanding of the problematic personality of Soren Kierkegaard. By analyzing the observations of his contemporaries, the author aims to create a picture of what Kierkegaard was like and what it was like to be the object his wrath or friendship.
"Encounters with Kierkegaard" is a collection of every known eyewitness account of the great Danish thinker. Through the sharp observations of family members, friends and acquaintances, supporters and opponents, the life story of this elusive and remarkable figure comes into focus, offering a rare portrait of Kierkegaard the man. Often viewed by his contemporaries as a person who deliberately cultivated an air of mystery and eccentricity, Soren Kierkegaard (1813-55) has been, then and now, a subject of great speculation. His startling attack on the established church, his broken engagement with a young woman from a respected family, and his searing criticisms of literary figures - from the editors of "The Corsair" to Hans Christian Andersen - are among the acts that brought him much notoriety during his short lifetime. Yet arriving at a sense of the philosopher's personality and the motives behind his behaviour has been a difficult task. He left no memoirs or autobiography, but in the enormous canon of his published writings, the author and person Soren Kierkegaard is problematically present in a welter of disguises.
An indispensable path to understanding what he was like as a person, maintains Bruce Kirmmse, is through the observations of his contemporaries. These accounts, ranging from the writings of Meir Aron Goldschmidt, editor of "The Corsair", to the recollections of Kierkegaard's fiancee, are organised around the major episodes of the philosopher's life. They enable us to glimpse, among many things, his spiritual and intellectual development, to get a sense of what it was like to be the object of his friendship or his wrath, and to examine various persons' opinions about his relationship with his young fiancee. The memories of this woman, Regine Olsen, who later married Fritz Schlegel, are among the most moving passages: they reveal her profound suffering, her personal understanding of Kierkegaard, and the satisfaction she ultimately felt, knowing that "he took her with him into history". This collection of first-hand accounts invites the reader to compare and interpret a wealth of fascinating stories, and in the end forms an intriguing "do-it-yourself" biography for both the scholar and general reader.
"Encounters with Kierkegaard" is a collection of every known eyewitness account of the great Danish thinker. Through the sharp observations of family members, friends and acquaintances, supporters and opponents, the life story of this elusive and remarkable figure comes into focus, offering a rare portrait of Kierkegaard the man. Often viewed by his contemporaries as a person who deliberately cultivated an air of mystery and eccentricity, Soren Kierkegaard (1813-55) has been, then and now, a subject of great speculation. His startling attack on the established church, his broken engagement with a young woman from a respected family, and his searing criticisms of literary figures - from the editors of "The Corsair" to Hans Christian Andersen - are among the acts that brought him much notoriety during his short lifetime. Yet arriving at a sense of the philosopher's personality and the motives behind his behaviour has been a difficult task. He left no memoirs or autobiography, but in the enormous canon of his published writings, the author and person Soren Kierkegaard is problematically present in a welter of disguises.
An indispensable path to understanding what he was like as a person, maintains Bruce Kirmmse, is through the observations of his contemporaries. These accounts, ranging from the writings of Meir Aron Goldschmidt, editor of "The Corsair", to the recollections of Kierkegaard's fiancee, are organised around the major episodes of the philosopher's life. They enable us to glimpse, among many things, his spiritual and intellectual development, to get a sense of what it was like to be the object of his friendship or his wrath, and to examine various persons' opinions about his relationship with his young fiancee. The memories of this woman, Regine Olsen, who later married Fritz Schlegel, are among the most moving passages: they reveal her profound suffering, her personal understanding of Kierkegaard, and the satisfaction she ultimately felt, knowing that "he took her with him into history". This collection of first-hand accounts invites the reader to compare and interpret a wealth of fascinating stories, and in the end forms an intriguing "do-it-yourself" biography for both the scholar and general reader.
Bruce H. Kirmmse is Professor of History at Connecticut College and has served as the director of the Department of Søren Kierkegaard Research at the University of Copenhagen. He is the author of Kierkegaard in Golden Age Denmark and serves on the editorial board of Kierkegaardiana and the advisory boards of the Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre in Copenhagen and the Howard and Edna Hong Kierkegaard Library at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota.
Übersetzer | Bruce H. Kirmmse, Virginia R. Laursen |
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Zusatzinfo | 3 Maps |
Verlagsort | New Jersey |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 197 x 254 mm |
Gewicht | 765 g |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit | |
ISBN-10 | 0-691-01106-0 / 0691011060 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-691-01106-6 / 9780691011066 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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