{"product_id":"kierkegaard-for-beginners-9781934389140","title":"Kierkegaard for Beginners","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard was one of the most original thinkers of the 19th Century - and one of the most enigmatic men who ever walked the Earth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePhilosophically, Kierkegaard was the \"bridge\" that led from Hegel to Existentialism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKierkegaard abhorred Hegel's abstract, Know-it-all idealism that tried to capture reality in a few words. Kierkegaard's attack on social and religious complacency and his single-handed assault on traditional Western philosophy generated a crisis that produced a radically new way of philosophizing and made him the founder of the school that would later be called Existentialism. To Kierkegaard, reality was personal, subjective - it began and ended with the individual - and philosophy was not something one merely talked about, it was the way you lived.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor such a brilliant thinker, the way Kierkegaard lived was... somewhat too interesting? His \"abstract\" love affair? His obsession with death? His \"leap of Faith,\" his cynicism, his marvelous sense of humor - how do you put all that into one man?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor starters, you read \u003ci\u003eKierkegaard For Beginners\u003c\/i\u003e. It explains, plainly and simply, the great Danish thinker's obsession with the particularity of human existence as well as his demonstration of how the creation of an authentic new kind of individual is possible.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e For Beginners\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/21\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781934389140\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.57lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.94h x 6.20w x 0.42d","brand":"Donald D. Palmer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51616357122229,"sku":"9781934389140","price":14.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_5aeb01ae-124c-4f4f-b070-c66a437d4036.jpg?v=1756189116","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/kierkegaard-for-beginners-9781934389140","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}