Receiving Soren Kierkegaard
Subtitle: The Early Impact and Transmission of His Thought
Publisher: Catholic University of America Press
Published: July 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 437
ISBN-13: 9780813208787
Subjects: Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present; Kierkegaard, Sýren,; Kierkegaard, Soren; Biography / Autobiography; Philosophy; General; History & Surveys - Modern; Kierkegaard, Søren; 1813-1855; Kierkegaard, Sren,
Description: With a wealth of detail, this book traces the acceptance and rejection of Soren Kierkegaard's thought in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Engaging the reader with biographical sketches of Kierkegaard and his contemporaries, Habib Malik presents a fascinating historical narrative of the early reception of Kierkegaard's thought.

At the center of this story is an exploration of how Kierkegaard's ideas moved from the relative obscurity of Copenhagen at the time of his death in 1855 to the center of European intellectual culture in the mid-1920s.

Receiving Soren Kierkegaard is the first serious attempt to chronicle the early "lost years" of Kierkegaard's intellectual legacy. It analyzes Kierkegaard's profound impact on the lives and thought of such figures as Orsted, Ibsen, Jacobsen, Brandes, Nietzsche, Dilthey, Unamuno, Joyce, Rilke, Kafka, Lukacs, and Kassner.