Gedsted 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 1908, when a book of selections were rendered into English.

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In the late 1930’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 1968.

In the 1970’s, they entered into a contract with Princeton Universit