The Living Thoughts Of Kierkegaard: 6 (New York Review Books (Paperback)) - Softcover

Kierkegaard, Soren

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0940322137 ISBN 13: 9780940322134

Publisher: NYRB Classics, 1999

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

W. H. Auden (1907 1973) was born in North Yorkshire, England, the son of a doctor. He studied at Oxford and published his first book, Poems, in 1930, immediately establishing himself as one of the outstanding voices of his generation. Auden emigrated to New York in 1939, where he became a US citizen and converted to Anglicanism. He wrote essays, critical studies, plays, and opera librettos for such composers as Benjamin Britten, Igor Stravinsky, and Hans Werner Henze, as well as the poems for which he is most famous.

Synopsis:

The reprint of English poet Auden's introductory selection and arrangement of the Danish philosopher's work. The material comes from 11 of the philosopher's publications and are arranged under the topic headings of prefaratory aphorisms; the present age; the aesthetic, the ethical, and the religious; the subjective thinker; sin and dread; and Chris

About this edition

• Publisher: NYRB Classics
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0940322137
• ISBN 13: 9780940322134
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 280
• Editor: Auden W. H.