Noi albinoni kierkegaard biography

BIOGRAPHY AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SØREN KIERKEGAARD

By Gordon Marino

One of Søren Aabye Kierkegaard&#;s most celebrated works, Concluding Unscientific Postscript, sold 50 copies in his lifetime.

Nevertheless, the 19th-century Danish philosopher was confident that history would offer him a warmer reception than his contemporaries did.

The Swedes were the first to recognize Kierkegaard&#;s importance, followed by the Germans and the French.

The English-speaking world knew virtually nothing about Kierkegaard until , when a book of selections were rendered into English. In the late &#;s, Walter Lowrie discovered Kierkegaard and together with David Swenson, awakened the English-speaking world to Kierkegaard&#;s significance.

Howard and Edna Hong first translated Kierkegaard&#;s Journals and Papers into English for which they won the National Book Award in In the &#;s, they entered into a contract with Princeton University Press to publish Kierkegaard&#;s Writing