I shall listen to this sugrue,
for myslef --from reading only
I found Kierkegaard far too much Schmaltz to take him seriously,
did you notice that nobody cares about, say, Carnap suicidal wife,
Avicenna's girlfriend or Aquinas' lack thereof?
have a god sunday here this is the day, there is no sun, of the end of
confinement....
toady in this country first steps outside the 499 meters radius
Quatsch wird gelöscht, ohne gelesen zu werden
Kerem jojjenek maskor es kulonosen masho
הִשְׁתַּדֵּל הִזְדַּקֵּן
palma, a paolo shaul םֹשׁ ְרֵגּ
On Sun, May 10, 2020 at 4:00 AM Lawrence Helm <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
After reading a review in last week’s *New Yorker *of Cheryl Misak’s *Frank
Ramsey, *then spending several intense hours seeing if I could (despite
failing in the past) find something in American Pragmatism to relate to, I
had just given up when the mail arrived. I hobbled out to the mail box and
retrieved the current issue of *The New Yorker. *In it I found a review
of Clare Carlisle’s *Philosopher of the Heart, *a biography of Soren
Kierkegaard, published, or perhaps acquired by Amazon on May 5, 2020. The
review was by Adam Kirsch.
I do have perhaps the more popular volumes by Kierkegaard, none of which I
managed to appreciate. Unwilling to let him go after reading the New
Yorker review I turned to Youtube and found Michael Sugrue’s “Kierkegaard’s
Leap of Faith”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rVqPCayd1c Sugrue is
impressive.
Interestingly, Sugrue seems fairly clinical and objective (although
dramatic and intense) in presenting Kierkegaard. The reviewer Kirsch,
tells us if Kierkegaard were to happen today, “say in Denmark, the standard
example of a rational modern society – the man would sooner or later end up
in a psychiatrist’s office, where he would probably be given a diagnosis of
depression or bipolar disorder. He would start seeing a therapist and
might be prescribed medication. The goal would be to get him back to
normal, as the world defines normal”: able to take pleasure in life, to
form relationships, to meet his obligations as a family member, friend, and
citizen. The man would seek professional help, because in the twenty-first
century, he would recognize his propensities as *symptoms *– evidence of
a psychological problem.”
As to Carlisle’s approach, her title *The philosopher of the Heart *may
be an indication Kiekegaard was engaged to Regine Olsen, “a
nineteen-year-old from a highly respectable family. After a year
Kierkegaard broke off the relationship leaving her “confused and
miserable.” “The public rejection threatened to ruin her future marriage
prospects. The review, and perhaps Carlisles’ book ends with Kierkegaard
on his death bed at age 42 writing a letter to his brother about the
disposition of his estate: “everything he owned was to go to Regine,
‘exactly as if I had been married to her.’”
Lawrence