Kierkegaard: A Kind of Poet (Anniversary Collection)

Kierkegaard: A Kind of Poet (Anniversary Collection) by Mackey, Louis. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780812276411.

Søren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855) has traditionally been considered a philosopher or religious thinker. But to himself he was "a kind of poet and thinker." If Kierkegaard, then, writes Louis Mackey, is to be understood, he must be studied with the tools of literary criticism: "whatever philosophy there is in Kierkegaard is sacramentally transmitted in, with, and under poetry." "The study of Kierkegaard," states Louis Mackey, "can throw new light on the relationship between philosophy and poetry." In these impressive analyses of Kierkegaards most important works, a modern philosopher has written a book that is in itself a work of literary grace and distinction.