Mads vestergaard kierkegaard biography

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    Encounters with Kierkegaard: A Life as Seen by His Contemporaries 9780691221885

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    ENCOUNTERS WITH KIERKEGAARD

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    KIERKE GAARD A Life as Seen by His Contemporaries

    Collected, Edited, and Annotated by

    BRUCE H. KIRMMSE Translated by

    Bruce H. Kirmmse and Virginia R. Laursen

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    Copyright © 1996 by Princeton University Press Published by Princeton University Press, 41 William Street, Princeton, New Jersey 08540 In the United Kingdom: Princeton University Press, Chichester,West Sussex All Rights Reserved

    Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Encounters with Kierkegaard : a life as seen by his contemporaries / collected, edited, and annotated by Bruce H. Kirmmse; translated by Bruce H. Kirmmse and Virginia R. Laursen. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. ISBN 0-691-01106-0 ISBN 0-691-05894-6 (pbk.) 1. Kierkegaard, Soren, 1813-1855. 2. Philosophers—Denmark— Biography. 3. Authors, Danish—Denmark—Biography. 4. Theologians—Denmark—Biography. I. Kirmmse, Bruce H. B4376.E43 1996 198'.9 — DC20 [B] 95-43183 This book has been composed in Bembo Princeton University Press books are printed on acid-free paper and

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    Foucault Studies

    INTRODUCTION

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    Culture of Denmark

    The culture of Denmark has a rich artistic and scientific heritage. The fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875), the philosophical essays of Søren Kierkegaard (1813–1855), the short stories of Karen Blixen, penname Isak Dinesen, (1885–1962), the plays of Ludvig Holberg (1684–1754), modern authors such as Herman Bang and Nobel laureateHenrik Pontoppidan and the dense, aphoristic poetry of Piet Hein (1905–1996), have earned international recognition, as have the symphonies of Carl Nielsen (1865–1931). From the mid-1990s, Danish films have attracted international attention, especially those associated with Dogme 95 like those of Lars Von Trier. Denmark has had a strong tradition of movie making and Carl Theodor Dreyer has been recognised as one of the world's greatest film directors.[1] The astronomical discoveries of Tycho Brahe (1546–1601), Ludwig A. Colding's (1815–1888) neglected articulation of the principle of conservation of energy, and the foundational contributions to atomic physics of Niels Bohr (1885–1962); in this century Lene Vestergaard Hau (born 1959) in quantum physics involving the stopping of light, advances in nano-technology, and contributions to the understanding of Bose-Einstein Condensates, demonstrate the ra