A Biography
Buch, Englisch, 896 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 233 mm, Gewicht: 1227 g
ISBN: 978-0-691-12788-0
Verlag: Princeton University Press
"The day will come when not only my writings, but precisely my life--the intriguing secret of all the machinery--will be studied and studied." Søren Kierkegaard's remarkable combination of genius and peculiarity made this a fair if arrogant prediction. But Kierkegaard's life has been notoriously hard to study, so complex was the web of fact and fiction in his work. Joakim Garff's biography of Kierkegaard is thus a landmark achievement. A seamless blend of history, philosophy, and psychological insight, all conveyed with novelistic verve, this is the most comprehensive and penetrating account yet written of the life and works of the enigmatic Dane who changed the course of intellectual history. Garff portrays Kierkegaard not as the all-controlling impresario behind some of the most important works of modern philosophy and religious thought--books credited with founding existentialism and prefiguring postmodernism--but rather as a man whose writings came to control him. Kierkegaard saw himself as a vessel for his writings, a tool in the hand of God, and eventually as a martyr singled out to call for the end of "Christendom." Garff explores the events and relationships that formed Kierkegaard, including his guilt-ridden relationship with his father, his rivalry with his brother, and his famously tortured relationship with his fiancée Regine Olsen. He recreates the squalor and splendor of Golden Age Copenhagen and the intellectual milieu in which Kierkegaard found himself increasingly embattled and mercilessly caricatured. Acclaimed as a major cultural event on its publication in Denmark in 2000, this book, here presented in an exceptionally crisp and elegant translation, will be the definitive account of Kierkegaard's life for years to come.
Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Skandinavische Literaturen
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 19. Jahrhundert
- Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Biographien & Autobiographien: Historisch, Politisch, Militärisch
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
Weitere Infos & Material
Maps xiii
Preface xvii
Foreword to the English-Language Edition xxiii
Translator's Preface and Acknowledgments xxv
Part One: 1813-1834
The Little Fork 7
Warping 12
S?ren Sock 17
Two Weddings and a Fire 22
Studiosus Severinus 26
Alma Mater 29
Underground Copenhagen 32
The Black Sheep 37
1835
The Still Voices of the Dead 47
The Summer of 1835 in Gilleleje 50
"To Find the Idea for Which I Am Willing to Live and Die" 56
1836
"A Somersault into the Siberia of Freedom of the Press" 60
Within the Heibergs? Charmed Circle 67
Studiosus Faustus 74
The Battle between the Old and the New Soap-Cellars 80
Poul Martin M?ller 86
"Sketches of Moral Nature"-Affectation and Self-Deception 89
"Backstage Practice" 95
1837
Storm and Stress? 102
Maria 111
Bringing Gloom to Rented Rooms 115
"Dear Emil You, My Friend, the Only One" 118
Reading Binge 122
1838
"There Is an Indescribable Joy" 126
Death of a Merchant 128
"The Great Earthquake" 131
From the Papers of One Still Living 138
1839
The Rich Young Man 147
The Translator 150
"My Reading for the Examinations Is the Longest Parenthesis" 152
A Dandy on a Pilgrimage 154
Part Two: 1840
Regine-in Memoriam 173
Miss O. 175
From the Papers of One Already Dead 178
The Time of Terrors 185
"She Chooses the Shriek, I Choose the Pain" 190
1841
On the Concept of Irony 192
1842
Stark Naked in Berlin 199
"The Aesthetic Is Above All My Element" 204
The Incidental Tourist 206
1843
Either/Or 214
"A Monster of a Book" 218
Literary Exile 224
Spiritual Eroticism 226
Regine's Nod 228
Berlin Again 229
Repetition 232
"Long Live the Post Horn!" 236
To Become Oneself Again Is to Become Someone Else 239
Reality Intervenes 243
1:50 247
The Retracted Text 248
Fear and Trembling 252
Abraham and the Knife: Agnete and Farinelli 258
"A Crevice through Which the Infinite Peeped Out" 261
1844
The Concept of Anxiety 266
Captivating Anxiety-Pages from a Seducer's Textbook 270
The Seduction's Diary 277
Oh, to Write a Preface 281
Reviews 284
Israel Levin 288
"Come Over and See Me for a Bit" 292
To Have Faith Is Always to Expect the Joyous, the Happy, the Good 295
1845
"Big Enough to Be a Major City" 301
"I Came Close to Dancing with Them" 305
"People Bath" 308
"Yes, of Course, I Am an Aristocrat-" 316
"I Think Grundtvig Is Nonsense" 318
Kierkegaard in Church 325
"People Think I'm a Hack Writer" 332
Stages on Life's Way 337
The Inserted Passages 340
Writing Samples 353
Exit Heiberg 357
Postscript: Kierkegaard 361
Part Three: 1846
Victor Eremita's Admirers 375
The Corsair-"A Devil of a Paper" 376
Comic Composition and Goldschmidt's Flashy Jacket 379
"I Am a Jew. What Am I Doing among You?" 382
Malice in a Macintosh: Peder Ludvig M?ller 386
"A Visit to Sor?" 390
"Would Only That I Might Soon Appear in The Corsair" 393
The Corsair's Salvo 395
M?ller's Postscript to Kierkegaard's Postscript 402
Admiration and Envy: When One Word Leads to Another 405
The Squint-Eyed Hunchback 408
The Great Reversal 411
"The School of Abuse" 414
The Neighbors across the Way 418
"S. Kjerkegaard and His Reviewers" 422
"This Sweat-Soaked, Stifling Cloak of Mush That Is the Body" 428
The Bull of Phalaris 431
"What Does the Physician Really Know?" 434
"For I Have Loved My Melancholia" 437
Adolph Peter Adler 440
The Book on Adler 444
"Confusion-Making of the Highest Order" 446
Saint Paul and Carpetmaker Hansen 448
Exaltation: 7-14-21; 7-14-21; 7-14-21 450
"The Sensual Pleasure of Productivity" 452
Graphomania 457
Rad. Valerian? 460
1847
"Perhaps You Would Also Like Me to Listen to Yo
