Tudvad og kierkegaard biography

Peter Tudvad (born 27 April 1966 in Holme south of Århus) is a Danish Søren Kierkegaard scholar, author, philosopher and social critic.
He puts special biographical emphasis, however, on one of Kierkegaard's works: The Stages on Life's Way. Garff recognizes Kierkegaard in the story of the broken.
It is thus a little strange to see how this sizeable new biography of Kierkegaard leaves international Kierkegaard research out of its frame of.

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Kierkegaard has not been well served by his English-language biographers. Walter Lowrie wrote two early biographies, one immense and full of long quotations from Kierkegaard's as yet untranslated works, and later the much-read and much-loved A Short Life of Kierkegaard. Though not completely uncritical (as a cleric Lowrie could hardly fully endorse Kierkegaard's later attack on the church), Lowrie's works are today often dismissed, too hastily in my view, as hagiography, since he certainly loved Kierkegaard and generally puts the best face possible on the famous episodes in Kierkegaard's life. Josiah Thompson swung to the other extreme in his biography The Lonely Labyrinth, debunking many of Lowrie's views and generally viewing with suspicion almost every claim Kierkegaard made about himself and his own work. (Thompson's suspicious nature ran deep; after writing his work on Kierkegaard he left academe and became a private investigator, author of Gumshoe: Reflections in a Private Eye, and a prominent controversialist about the assassination of John F. Kennedy.)

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‘Forbandelsen’ – Peter Tudvad’s grotesque and implausible caricature of Søren Kierkegaard

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an amiable Friend and a despicable Journalist andrea scaramuccia in a passage from his memoirs published in 1890 , vilhelm Birkedal (1809-92)-92), pastor in a village on the island of Funen and one of the leaders of the grundtvigian movement, recalls the uneasiness he experienced whenever he met the famous søren Kierkegaard on the streets of Copenhagen. the peripatetic philosopher used to engage in long conversations with people he met on his way, and at the same time employed his piercing psychological insight to investigate his interlocutor's mind. Birkedal loathed the pressure, the scrutiny of inspection, which he was subjected to when encountering his theological antagonist: as i mentioned, when i met s.K. like this, i was afraid of becoming more deeply involved than necessary with him. i did not want to be grilled. he co

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Peter Tudvad | THE TORCH

November 3, 2000 was an historic day in the history of Danish literature. Rarely have the expectations connected with the publication of a book been so great, and rarely has an author been in so privileged a position to fulfill these expectations. References to the fact that a great biography of Søren Kierkegaard was soon to appear had been in the [Danish] papers for months. When the date finally arrived, the papers were filled with interviews with the author.

The newspaper Information broke its own rule by reviewing the biography the day before it appeared. The reviewer, Klaus Rifbjerg could thus send the book out into the world with an exceptionally fortunate shove. The next day all the other Danish papers followed suit. The first edition of the book was sold out before the sun had set. The book, SAK. Søren Aabye Kierkegaard. En biografi (Copenhagen: GAD, 2000)2 was a triumph for the troubled publisher and for the author, Joakim Garff.

If SAK had achieved only a modest success, if it had not been received as the best biograph