| The Living Thoughts of Kierkegaard Contributor(s): Eremita, Victor (Author), Auden, W. H. (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0940322137 ISBN-13: 9780940322134 Publisher: New York Review of Books OUR PRICE: $16.16 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 1999 Annotation: Translated from the Danish by Walter Lowrie, David Swenson, and Alexander Dru The Danish philosopher Kierkegaard is one of the master thinkers of the modern age, a defining influence on existentialism and on twentieth-century theology, and this brilliantly tailored selection from his vast and varied writings--made by the great English poet W.H Auden--is a perfect introduction to his work. Auden's inspired and incisive response to a thinker who had done much to shape his own beliefs is a fundamental reading of an author whose spirit remains as radical as ever more than 150 years after he wrote. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | History & Surveys - General - Philosophy | Movements - Existentialism - Philosophy | Religious |
| Dewey: 198.9 |
| LCCN: 99014567 |
| Series: New York Review Books (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.71" H x 5.02" W x 8.04" (0.62 lbs) 280 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century |
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| Publisher Description: Translated from the Danish by Walter Lowrie, David Swenson, and Alexander Dru The Danish philosopher Kierkegaard is one of the master thinkers of the modern age, a defining influence on existentialism and on twentieth-century theology, and this brilliantly tailored selection from his vast and varied writings--made by the great English poet W.H Auden--is a perfect introduction to his work. Auden's inspired and incisive response to a thinker who had done much to shape his own beliefs is a fundamental reading of an author whose spirit remains as radical as ever more than 150 years after he wrote. |