Life lessons from Kierkegaard
12 September 2013Imprint: Macmillan
Synopsis
The School of Life offers radical ways to help us raid the treasure trove of human knowledge' Independent on Sunday
Soren Kierkegaard was a Danish philosopher, theologian, literary stylist and social critic. Born in 1813 in Copenhagen, his philosophical work addressed living as a single individual and the importance of personal choice. A famously fierce critic of the idealist thinkers...
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12 September 2013128 pages
9781447245643Imprint: Macmillan
Reviews
thoroughly welcoming and approachable ... [Robert Ferguson] communicates strongly his enthusiams, indeed his love, for this Manichean of the north, and writes of him beautifully ... If the six books in the Life Lessons series can teach even a few readers to pay passionate heed to the world - to notice things - they will have been an unquestionable successJohn Banville, Prospect
there is a good deal to be learned from these little primersObserver
A new series of books from Alain de Botton's School of Life does for Hobbes, Freud, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Byron and Bergson what de Botton's books have done for classical philosophers and Proust. They are short, snappy reads, reminiscent of Maria Popova's Brain Pickings blog - aphoristic digests from history's great mindsNew Statesman
