Kierkegaard's Muse: The Mystery of Regine Olsen
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Kierkegaard's Muse: The Mystery of Regine Olsen
By (Author) Joakim Garff
Translated by Alastair Hannay
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
3rd September 2019
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Biography: general
Gender studies: women and girls
Western philosophy from c 1800
Philosophy
European history
198.9
Physical Properties
Paperback
336
Width 156mm, Height 235mm
Description
The first biography of Kierkegaard's literary muse, from the author of the definitive life of the philosopher Kierkegaard's Muse-the first biography of Regine Olsen (1822-1904), the inspiration and one-time fiancee of Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard-is a moving portrait of a long romantic fever that had momentous literary consequences. Draw
Reviews
A moving, penetrating insight into one of the greatest and most perplexing love stories in literary history, written with the same scholarly vigilance and imaginative affection that made Garffs biography of Kierkegaard such a monumental achievement. . . . [G]oes further than any previous attempt to explore and understand the relationship between Regine and Kierkegaard.Morten Hi Jensen, Los Angeles Review of Books
Garff is both a punctilious scholar and superb writer.Frank Freeman, Commonweal Magazine
A measured, perceptive portrait of Regine Olsen, Kierkegaards jilted fiance, reanimating her not as the philosophers immortalized muse but as a living, breathing person.Publishers Weekly
Author Bio
Joakim Garff is the author of Sren Kierkegaard: A Biography (Princeton) and director of the Sren Kierkegaard Research Centre at the University of Copenhagen.
