Early in life, Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard was bestowed the nickname gaflen, or “fork,” for his talent at detecting weakness in others — and his taste for prodding at it. Recently, that ...

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 ...

Is there a more difficult subject for a biography than Kierkegaard? It’s not just that his life was outwardly uneventful and its secret events are hard to reconstruct, but that he devoted himself to ...

FEAR AND TREMBLING: Søren Kierkegaard did not make it easy for the biographer Joakim Garff, an associate professor at the University of Copenhagen’s Søren Kierkegaard Research Center. After all, the ...

Clare Carlisle’s wonderful new biography of Søren Kierkegaard is not an easy read. If you are simply looking for the facts of Kierkegaard’s life, Alas­tair Hannay’s Kierkegaard: A Biography or Stephen ...

Things are heating up in Denmark. Peter Tudvad, the scholar who exposed the problems with Joakim Garff’s once famous, now infamous book, Søren Kierkegaard: A Biography (Princeton, 2005) has been ...

THIS reviewer has read every page of every book, honest. Until now, presented with an 892-page biography of the 19th-century great Dane, author and self-described genius Søren Kierkegaard.

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. Early in life, the Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard was bestowed the nickname gaflen, or “fork,” ...

Kierkegaard wrote publicly, under a variety of inventive pseudonyms simultaneously revealing and concealing aspects of his self-scrutinizing personality, and privately, in his journals, under an ...