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A small, insignificant-looking intellectual with absurdly long legs, S�ren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) was a veritable Hans Christian Andersen caricature of a man. A strange combination of witty cosmopolite and melancholy introvert, he spent years writing under a series of fantastical pseudonyms, lavishing all the splendor of his magnificent mind on a seldom-appreciative world. He had a tragic love affair with a young girl, was dominated by an unforgettable Old Testament father, fought a sensational literary duel with a popular satiric magazine, and died in the midst of a violent quarrel with the state church for which he had once studied theology. Yet this iconoclast produced a number of brilliant books that have profoundly influenced modern thought.
In this classic biography, the celebrated Kierkegaard translator Walter Lowrie presents a charming and warmly appreciative introduction to the life and work of the great Danish writer. Lowrie tells the story of Kierkegaard's emotionally turbulent life with a keen sense of drama and an acute understanding of how his life shaped his thought. The result is a wonderfully informative and entertaining portrait of one of the most important thinkers of the past two centuries. This edition also includes Lowrie's wry essay "How Kierkegaard Got into English," which tells the improbable story of how Lowrie became one of Kierkegaard's principal English translators despite not learning Danish until he was in his 60s, as well as a new introduction by Kierkegaard scholar Alastair Hannay.
- Sales Rank: #1466924 in Books
- Brand: Lowrie, Walter/ Hannay, Alastair (INT)
- Published on: 2013-05-05
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 7.76" h x .77" w x 5.25" l, .70 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 320 pages
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Review
"Probably as good an introduction to Kierkegaard and his works as any that is likely ever to be produced."--Times Literary Supplement
"A remarkable phosphorescent condensation. . . . [Lowrie gives] us the very essence of the man. . . . A superb study."--New Republic
"A very fine introduction."--Commonweal
"A magnificent portrait."--Christian Century
"A sympathetic and powerful study."--Union Seminary Review
"A clear and moving account of the history of Kierkegaard's development and his writings."--Baltimore Evening Sun
About the Author
Walter Lowrie (1868-1959) played a leading role in introducing Kierkegaard to the English-speaking world as his first English-language biographer and the first English translator of more than a dozen volumes of his work.
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27 of 32 people found the following review helpful.
Marred by an untenable understanding of Kierkegaard's work
By Robert Moore
Walter Lowrie was one of the two key early figures in Kierkegaard studies in the English-speaking world, along with David Swenson. Swenson, teaching at the University of Minnesota, achieved his influence in three ways: 1) important early essays that introduced many in the English speaking world to the thought of Kierkegaard for the first time (collected in the still interesting volume SOMETHING ABOUT KIERKEGAARD), 2) through his translations of some of Kierkegaard's most important works, notably the PHILOSOPHICAL FRAGMENTS and CONCLUDING UNSCIENTIFIC POSTSCRIPTS, and 3) through two of his students, who have in turn exerted massive influence on Kierkegaard studies, Howard Hong and Paul Holmer. Hong and his wife have retranslated nearly all the works of Kierkegaard in a new edition available through Princeton University Press. Holmer, teaching first at the University of Minnesota and then for most of his career at the Yale University Divinity School, directed vastly more doctoral dissertations on Kierkegaard than anyone else.
Lowrie, on the other hand, has exerted his influence on Kierkegaard studies in two ways: his two biographies of Kierkegaard and his translations of most of his works. Swenson was a gifted and careful translator, with a profound knowledge of Danish and an appreciation for its subtleties. Lowrie, on the other hand, learned Danish very late in life. His work on Kierkegaard was, in fact, more or less his retirement project. Lowrie had been the minister of a large and prestigious church, and was quite well off financially through marriage. This is significant in that it allowed him, when he discovered references to Kierkegaard in the work of German theologians in his mid-sixties, to subsidize his own research into Kierkegaard. This meant not only going to Denmark to study Danish, but obtaining all the various editions of Kierkegaard's works in Danish, as well as all relevant contemporary works, many of which were not available in American research libraries. As a result, Lowrie was able to make possible a degree of Kierkegaard research in America that might otherwise have been impossible.
Unfortunately, Lowrie remained until the end merely a gifted amateur. He learned Danish, but was never its master, and his translations, as opposed to those of Swenson, were of a much lower quality than one might desire of a figure the stature of Kierkegaard. To be fair, Lowrie felt that the goal of the first generation of Kierkegaard scholars was to get SK's works out in the public as quickly as possible, and then let subsequent generations retranslate them. In effect, because of Swenson's unfortunately early death, this is what happened.
All of this is a long intro to say that both Lowrie's full length biography and this shorter version of the biography are well meaning but profoundly flawed books, and are not only unreliable guides to the thought of Kierkegaard but provide misleading ways of looking at Kierkegaard's work as a whole. For instance, Lowrie treats all of Kierkegaard's works as if their primary value is in illuminating the life of Kierkegaard than his thought. This is seen in the almost obsessive manner in which Lowrie continually relates every possible event in Kierkegaard's life to his broken engagement with Regina Olson. In fact, the broken engagement illumines surprisingly little of Kierkegaard's thought.
So, while I think that anyone studying Kierkegaard should feel the greatest appreciation of the debt we in the English-speaking world owe to Lowrie's pioneering efforts, both his biographies and his translations should be avoided. Unfortunately, we have yet to see the appearance in English of a truly first rate biography of Kierkegaard. Bruce Kirmmse's books are more narrowly focused but are otherwise superb (perhaps the finest works on Kierkegaard in English). Alastair Hannay has recently published a solid scholarly biography that is marred by a sometimes impenetrable, impossibly dry prose. Nonetheless, it can provide a far more reliable guide to Kierkegaard's life than this biography by Lowrie.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
a near-autobiographical life of S.K.
By W.N. Hixon
Walter Lowrie, probably unknowingly, described the whole of this "Short Life" well in a sentence: "Fortunately, in this chapter I can tell much of the story in S.K.'s own words, supplying merely the connective tissue which may be necessary to hold his scattered utterances together."
This account of Kierkegaard's life is presently largely in the man's own words, with the author serving almost as an editor. S. K.'s journals and excerpts don't always make for the most fluent reading, and so Lowrie's comments and clarifications do well to bind the whole life together and shine light on much of the more ambiguous meaning. The chronology of his life in the book is a bit confusing at times and, because he lets Kierkegaard do a lot of the talking, Lowrie forfeits the chance to present as compelling a narrative as some biographies do, but S.K.'s life is so dramatic and interesting in and of itself that the reading is nevertheless arresting.
The "Short Life" is a little dated at this point, but is written by one of the Kierkegaard scholars of the day, and I think it should provide any student or casual reader with a fine introduction to the man's thought and the events that shaped and colored that thought so powerfully.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
KIERKEGAARD'S TRANSLATOR WRITES A BRIEFER BIOGRAPHY
By Steven H Propp
Walter Lowrie is the translator of most of Kierkegaard's works into English, and also the author of Kierkegaard 2 Volumes [Vol. I: Childhood, Youth, Early Manhood. / Vol. II: Intellectual Maturity, Becoming a Christian, The Corrective-The Sacrifice]. He wrote in the Preface to this 1942 book, "The Princeton University Press about eight months ago asked me to write 'a relatively short' life of Kierkegaard... it seemed to me strange for one man to write two biographies of the same person... This book is barely a quarter the size of the 'Kierkegaard' which was published by the Oxford University Press in 1938... This little book, simply a biography, may perhaps be more lucid than the other, in which it was sometimes difficult to see the forest for the trees." (Pg. vii-viii)
He deals with the symbolism in Either / Or and its relation to Kierkegaard's broken-off engagement with Regina Olsen: "Here S.K. in a book which was meant for Regina explains his own case, and yet disguises it by assigning to a woman the role which he had played. He stresses the fact that Antigone cannot divulge the secret which would bring shame upon her father's memory, and that therefore she cannot marry him, for she will not enter into a marriage which is not perfectly open-hearted. The grim secret is her undoing." (Pg. 78) Later, he notes, "It does not seem possible that Regina could have been happy as his wife, though it is clear enough that as the wife and widow of another man she continued to love and admire him." (Pg. 140)
Lowrie notes, "During this period entries in the Journal are few and brief, but they indicate clearly enough that in April S.K. had fallen very low. They indicate frequent drunkenness and frequent thoughts of suicide." (Pg. 99) He adds, "There is general agreement in placing the sexual fall [i.e., dalliance with a prostitute] in the month of May... If we had no evidence of a sexual fall, we should have to invent it, since it had the gravest consequences for his subsequent life and, as we shall see, he we often tormented by the question whether he ought to confess it publicly." (Pg. 100-101)
Of Kierkegaard's referring to his own "thorn in the flesh," Lowrie says, "What S.K. meant by his thorn we cannot discover more precisely than we can in the case of St. Paul. Both of them were humiliating physical disabilities... he tells us that he consulted a physician to learn if it might be removed, and at a later period he asked himself whether he ought not to 'draw it out.' In this small book it would not be appropriate to delve deeper into a mystery which has not yet been solved." (Pg. 126)
When on his death bed he was asked whether he desired Communion, he said, "'Yes, but not from a parson.' Then it would be difficult to do it. 'Then I shall die without it.' That is not right. 'I will not dispute about it. I have made my choice. The parsons are royal functionaries, and royal functionaries are not related to Christianity.'" (Pg. 254-255)
Lowrie has a great deal of sympathy and insight into Kierkegaard; this book will be of immense benefit to anyone seeking to know more about Kierkegaard.
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