Summary
Trond Berg Eriksen: Seren Kjerkergor - The Pious Mocker
For Ludwig Wittgenstein, Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) is the greatest thinker of the 19th century. And indeed, the biography of many ideas and thought trends of the 19th, and especially the 20th century, cannot be written without reference to this heterodox and eccentric Danish philosopher, theologian and "poet". But during his short life (he lived only 42 years), no one believed that his late romantic arrows and spears, which he hurled with indescribable energy at the strong fortress of Hegel's 'system', civil morality and official church doctrine and practice, could shake and damage anything. His passionate thought, aware at every moment of the paradoxes and pathos of human existence, will nevertheless accelerate their corrosion and later be confirmed by a number of currents of thought (existentialism, Christian personalism) and important thinkers (e.g. Heidegger).
Norwegian historian of ideas Trond Berg Eriksen places Søren Kierkegaard in a historical context (quite unknown in our area) and offers a new, exhaustive reading of Kierkegaard's work. Seren Kjerkergor - The Pious Mocker is an intellectual biography of this influential and original thinker, which illuminates the conditions (personal, family, cultural, political) for the emergence and development of his thought starting points, interprets a number of his important works and conceptions, and illuminates the conditions (personal, family, cultural, political) for the origin and development of his thought starting points, and opens a chapter on Kierkegaard's reception in European culture. The work appeared in Norway in 2013 (200 years after Kierkegaard's birth) and will no doubt serve as one of the main Scandinavian reference studies on Søren Kierkegaard for years to come.
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