Discover a new understanding of Kierkegaard’s thought and his life.
15 Units
Self-paced
3.25 hours of video
Beginner
Kierkegaard: A Single Life
Kierkegaard, like Einstein and Freud, is one of those geniuses whose ideas permeate the culture and shape our world even when relatively few people have read their works.
Soren 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.
This course, by Kierkegaard scholar Stephen Backhouse presents the genius as well as the acutely sensitive man behind the brilliant books.
What you will learn:
D.Phil., Oxford
Stephen Backhouse is the Lecturer in Social and Political Theology at Mellitus College, London. He studied at the University of Oxford and McGill University. He has published a number of critically well-received books and articles on religion, history, and Kierkegaard, from the popular Kierkegaard: A Single Life published by Zondervan, to the academic Kierkegaard’s Critique of Christian Nationalism for Oxford University Press.
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