Kierkegaard in 90 Minutes

Daryl Royster Alexander, New York Times
A godsend in this era of the short attention span.


Otto Scott's Compass, 1/1/97
Dr. Strathern manages to make philosophic peaks clear-and philosophers human....Miraculously succinct, informative and valuable books.


Jim Holt, Wall Street Journal, 3/18/97
Witty, illuminating, and blessedly concise.


Richard Bernstein, New York Times, 7/2/98
I find them hard to stop reading.... Well-written, clear and informed; they have a breezy wit about them....


Katherine A. Powers, Boston Globe 10/20/96
I cannot think of a better way to introduce oneself and one's friends to Western civilization.


Otto Scott's Compass, 1/1/97
"Dr. Strathern manages to make philosophic peaks clear-and philosophers human....Miraculously succinct, informative and valuable books."


Jim Holt, Wall Street Journal, 3/18/97
"Witty, illuminating, and blessedly concise."


Richard Bernstein, New York Times, 7/2/98
"I find them hard to stop reading....Mr. Strathern's books are well-written, clear and informed; they have a breezy wit about them....Good enough for them to provide genuine education."


Katherine A. Powers, Boston Globe 10/20/96
"Each of these little books is witty and dramatic and creates a sense of time, place, and character....I cannot think of a better way to introduce oneself and one's friends to Western civilization."


Book Description
Philosophical thought is deciphered and made comprehensible and interesting to almost everyone.


About the Author
Paul Strathern, a former Somerset Maugham prize winner, has written five novels as well as books on history and travel. His own degree in philosophy was earned at Trinity College, Dublin.


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Kierkegaard wasn't really a philosopher in the academic sense. Yet he produced what many people expect of philosophy. He didn't write about the world, he wrote about life - how we live, and how we choose to live. His subject was the individual and his or her existence: the "existing being." In Kierkegaard's view, this purely subjective entity lay beyond the reach of reason, logic, philosophical systems, theology, or even "the pretenses of psychology." Nonetheless it was the source of all these subjects. The branch of philosophy to which Kierkegaard gave birth has come to be known as existentialism. In Kierkegaard in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern offers a concise, expert account of Kierkegaard's life and ideas, and explains their influence on man's struggle to understand his existence in the world. The book also includes selections from Kierkegaard's work; a brief list of suggested reading for those who wish to push further; and chronologies that place Kierkegaard within his own age and in the broader scheme of philosophy.


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