Soren Kierkegaard: A Biography.(Book Review) From: The Christian Century | Date: September 6, 2005| Author: Crouter, Richard | COPYRIGHT 2005 The Christian Century Foundation. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Soren Kierkegaard: A Biography.

By Joakim Garff. Princeton University Press, 872 pp., $35.00.

JOAKIM GARFF'S justly acclaimed biography of Kierkegaard, published in English in the year marking the 200th anniversary of the birth of Hans Christian Andersen, invites us into the literary world of Denmark's golden age. It also calls us to ponder Kierkegaard in the context of his ambitious, anxiety-ridden life and through the eyes of his contemporaries.

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