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Zusatztext As the plot of this text unfolds it becomes a play within a play! an occasion for reflection; with clearer vision the reader discovers herself at center stage! having become-one can only hope-an actress in crisis. Informationen zum Autor Jon Stewart is Associate Professor at the Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre, at the University of Copenhagen. He is the editor of the series Kierkegaard Research: Sources, Reception and Resources, Texts from Golden Age Denmark and Danish Golden Age Studies. He is the coeditor of the Kierkegaard Studies Yearbook and Kierkegaard Studies Monograph Series. His works include The Unity of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit: A SystematicInterpretation (2000), Kierkegaard's Relations to Hegel Reconsidered (2003), A History of Hegelianism in Golden Age Denmark, Tomes I-II (2007), Idealism and Existentialism: Hegel and Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century European Philosophy (2010), and The Unity of Content and Form in Philosophical Writing: The Perils of Conformity (2013). Klappentext An authoritative introduction to the life and thought of Kierkegaard for first-time readers. Zusammenfassung The book takes as its starting point the statement made by Kierkegaard towards the end of his life in which he claimed the model for his work had always been Socrates, and traces this influence on Kierkegaard's development as philosopher and religious thinker with a particular focus on the early text The Concept of Irony.
