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    Kierkegaard: Audio Lectures: 13 Lessons on His Life, Thought, and Writings
    Kierkegaard: Audio Lectures: 13 Lessons on His Life, Thought, and Writings
    Kierkegaard: Audio Lectures: 13 Lessons on His Life, Thought, and Writings
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    Kierkegaard: Audio Lectures: 13 Lessons on His Life, Thought, and Writings

    Written by Stephen Backhouse

    Narrated by Stephen Backhouse

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    About this audiobook

    The Zondervan Biblical and Theological Lectures series provides a unique audio learning experience. Unlike a traditional audiobook's direct narration of a book's text, Kierkegaard: Audio Lectures includes high-quality live recordings of college-level lectures that cover the important points from each subject as well as relevant material from other sources.

     

    Gain a new understanding of Kierkegaard's thought and life, a story filled with romance, betrayal, humor, and riots, in Kierkegaard: Audio Lectures.

     

    Søren Kierkegaard indeed lived an extraordinary life. He never saw the fruits of his work in his life--it would be almost 100 years after his death that others would unleash his words onto the wider world. Yet the Danish philosopher, theologian, social critic, and writer is now widely recognized as one of the world's most profound writers and thinkers, and his influence on philosophy, literature, and on secular and religious life and thought is incalculable. Philosophers and theologians influenced by Kierkegaard include Karl Barth, Emil Brunner, Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, Thomas Merton, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Kafka, Martin Luther King Jr., and numerous others.

     

    In Kierkegaard: Audio Lectures, author and professor Stephen Backhouse highlights the interesting and controversial aspects of Kierkegaard's life, recounting a story that few today know, and provides brief, straightforward overviews of his key works.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherZondervan Academic
    Release dateOct 31, 2017
    ISBN9780310595571
    Kierkegaard: Audio Lectures: 13 Lessons on His Life, Thought, and Writings
    Author

    Stephen Backhouse

    Stephen Backhouse (DPhil, Oxford) is the founder and director of Tent Theology, a venture that designs and delivers theology programmes to local churches. He is the Dean of Theology in the Local Church for Westminster Theological Centre and was formerly the Lecturer in Social and Political Theology at St Mellitus College. He is a historian of Christian thought, an expert on the work of Søren Kierkegaard and a recognised authority on the political theology of nations and nationalism. He is the author of many publications, including the award-winning popular biography Kierkegaard: A Single Life (Zondervan, 2016) and the Zondervan Essential Companion to Christian History (Zondervan, 2019). He has lived in the United States, and makes his home in Britain and Canada.

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    • 5/5
      An interesting and informative account of the man, his life and his writings.
    • 5/5
      A very informative way into the character and work of Kierkegaard. Palatable on the mind and easy on the ear.
    • 5/5
      S.K’s Story is so fascinating, his thought is profound and challenges your life and mind. The speaker of this recording was clear and easy to follow. Great job!
    • 5/5
      Awesome. It was a deep take on his life that added so many layers to my understanding of his work. Also, it is quite funny sometimes
    • 3/5
      It was a well-written overview of the life of someone I struggle and strain in vain to find interesting.
    • 4/5
      If you want a relatively light-weight biography of Kierkegaard, this is not a bad place to start. It makes some weird--probably considered artsy-- choices along the way. For example, it starts with his funeral. It also clearly makes some assumptions that are based on the author's presumptions that might be accurate, but some feel like a bit of a reach. To me, there are 2 highlights in the book. First is a chapter that for me should have led off the whole book and that was all the people throughout history from Kierkegaard's death until today who have been influenced by his writings. The significance of this makes Kierkegaard's life and choices feel more important. The second is the list of his books coupled with a synopsis of each of his writings. Worth the read, but only if you are interested in Kierkgaard--at least on a casual level.
    • 5/5
      Kierkegaard: A Single Life is an interesting biography of the Nineteenth Century philosopher and a summary of some of his writing. The book is written for a general reader audience, and no prior knowledge of the man or subject matter is needed to enjoy reading it. Usually, I do not believe that biographical information of authors is needed to understand their work. But, in this book, the connection between life experiences of Soren help the reader to appreciate his “single life” approach to deciding on the meaning of life.The work of Kierkegaard is not easy to summarize. After the major part of the book focusing on biography, Stephen Blackhouse presents an “overview” of Soren’s philosophy, something Kierkegaard resisted doing during his short life (42 years). Blackhouse admits the weakness of this short-cut presentation, clearly pointing out the philosopher’s challenge to an individual to work hard to understand his unique existence. I remember in high school the appeal of the complex writing that I thought would be something I could read and interpret for a lifetime. It did not work out that way, so reading Blackhouse’s book was an interesting sort of life review for me.Even in the 1960s, I realized that Kierkegaard was thinking of life as an individual challenge for self-examination. Most people go through a process of what Erik Erikson called “foreclosure,” accepting traditional teaching in schools, church, and society and foreclosing on your loan of freedom in life. It is easier and faster to do that than to do the hard work of self-determination of a life path. On this topic, Blackhouse provides an emotional quote of Kierkegaard himself that to me is a summary of the death of introspection and insight provided by today’s social media: “And man, this clever fellow, seems to have become sleepless in order to invent ever new instruments to increase noise, to spread noise and insignificance with the greatest possible haste and on the greatest possible scale.” (p. 258) Communication is fast and furious signifying nothing related to individual meaning. I think of this as a foreclosure of life, allowing others to determine your beliefs and actions without any serious critical analysis of assumptions, methods, hypotheses, data, and conclusions.I enjoyed this biography/summary of Soren Kierkegaard very much, especially as I evacuated form my beloved Low Country chased by Hurricane Matthew. I highly recommend that you read Blackhouse’s book and start reading and thinking about Soren’s work again (or for the first time) as I have done – it’s later than you think.