Description:
Following his acclaimed translations of Fear and Trembling and The Sickness unto Death, Bruce H. Kirmmse presents a new translation of Kierkegaard's discourses on love.
"Bruce H. Kirmmse is among the very best translators of Kierkegaard working today." --Christopher B. Barnett
Brief description: Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) was a Danish philosopher and theologian whose work has been widely recognized as foundational both to modern psychology and existentialism.
Review Quotes: Bruce H. Kirmmse has just published a capacious, generous, and lyrical new translation of this two-part series of 'deliberations, ' a translation that, like the original, is meant to be read aloud . . . Works of Love is not exactly a beach read, yet for me it was the perfect book for a summer of hate. If in some ways it's a dense and hefty tome, it's also sonorous in its melodies and enthralling, paradigm-shifting in its propositions--I don't know if scholars would agree, but I think it's fair enough to treat this as a volume to dip in and out of, flipping between chapters, when the mind is calm enough for reflection, to find hope, respite, lessons for living a different kind of world.--Ania Szremski "4Columns"