Philosopher of the Heart by Clare Carlisle

Selected as a Book of the Year in The Times Literary Supplement This lucid and riveting new biography at once rescuses Kierkegaard from the scholars and shows why he is such an intriguing and useful figure Observer Soren Kierkegaard one of the most passionate and challenging of modern philosophers is now celebrated as the father of existentialism yet his contemporaries described him as a philosopher of the heart. Over about a decade in the 1840s and 1850s writings poured from his pen analysing Paperback softback