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Philosopher of the Heart

As Clare Carlisle demonstrates in Philosopher of the Heart, reading Kierkegaard is much like reading a good novel or a thoughtful poem.

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Review of ‘Philosopher of the Heart’

Books by Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard aren’t likely on many readers’ nightstands these days. After all, titles such as Concluding Unscientific Postscript, Repetition and The Concept of Anxiety don’t exactly inspire a desire to dig deeper into their contents (even though the latter title sounds at least like it might be fitting for our unsettling…

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