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The book will be comprised primarily of English translations of articles from Danish newspapers. There were a couple of reviews, however, that appeared in scholarly journals. What follows are a three sections excerpted from a review of by the Danish scholar Johan de Mylius, of the University of Southern Denmark , that appeared in the journal Nordika vol.

The parenthetical references are to the English translations of the biography and the wording of passages de Mylius quotes directly is also taken from the this translation. Kierkegaard scholarship has gotten a spectacular center in Copenhagen. But Kierkegaard scholarship as such has for many years had its center, at least in a purely quantitative sense, elsewhere.

This is easily established by a glance an the annual Kierkegaard Newsletter , edited by Julia Watkin formerly of Copenhagen University, now at the University of Tasmania. As far as the number of books and articles, as well as seminars and conferences on Kierkegaard, the U. It is thus a little strange to see how this sizeable new biography of Kierkegaard leaves international Kierkegaard research out of its frame of reference.

Of course he is familiar with it.

Søren Kierkegaard was born to Michael Pedersen Kierkegaard and Anne (Lund) Kierkegaard in Copenhagen on 5 May , the youngest of seven.

There is not a single reference, however, in the entire biography to a work published outside Denmark. This is the case, for example, with respect to Theodor W. The entire biography is actually written in journalistic style. It is lively, often detailed and entertaining. The biggest problem is that even though Garff wants his approach to Kierkegaard to be aesthetic, he has little to offer when it comes to the literature of the period, the literature which Kierkegaard as a writer plays up against.