Nordborg kierkegaard biography

xxv, 867 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : 24 cm

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

Includes bibliographical references (pages 817-853) and index

I.

1813-1834 -- The little fork -- Warping -- Soren sock -- Two weddings and a fire -- Studiosus Severinus -- Alma Mater -- Underground Copenhagen -- The black sheep -- II. 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" -- III.

1836 -- "A somersault into the Siberia of freedom of the press" -- Within the Heibergs' charmed circle -- Studiosis Faustus -- The battle between the old and new soap-cellars -- Poul martin Moller -- "Sketches of oral nature" -- affectation and self-deception -- "Backstage practice" -- IV.

1837 -- Storm and stress? -- Maria -- Bringing gloom to rented rooms -- "Dear Em