Soren Kierkegaard

Bloom's Modern Critical Views

by Harold Bloom (Editor)

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Genres: Philosophy

252 pages, Library Binding

First published June 1, 1989

About the author

Harold Bloom was an American literary critic and the Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University. In 2017, Bloom was called "probably the most famous literary critic in the English-speaking world." After publishing his first book in 1959, Bloom wrote more than 50 books, including over 40 books of literary criticism, several books discussing religion, and one novel. He edited hundreds of anthologies concerning numerous literary and philosophical figures for the Chelsea House publishing firm. Bloom's books have been translated into more than 40 languages. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1995.
Bloom was a defender of the traditional Western canon at a time when literature departments were focusing on what he derided as the "school of resentment" (multiculturalists, feminists, Marxists, and others). He was educated at Yale University, the University of Cambridge, and Cornell University.

Reviews

[S. Mehdi]

"Irony is not so much apathy, divested of all tender emotions of the soul; instead, it is more like vexation over the fact that others also enjoy what it desires for itself."

Kierkegaard

[William Schram · Rating 4 out of 5]

The eminent scholar Harold Bloom brings us this collection of critical essays on Søren Kierkegaard. The book discusses Kierkegaard’s philosophy. It contains twelve essays overall, and come from a selection of critics and scholars.

The book is very informative. If you are looking to write an essay on Kierkegaard and his philosophy for a class or an assignment of some kind, this book is a great place to start. Since it headlines the portion of philosophy that each essay discusses in the title, it is possible to sort it by subject matter. The book delves deeply into Kierkegaard’s works, enough for someone to do an analysis of his psyche.

There really isn’t much else to say about this book. It also has a chronology of Kierkegaard’s life and times, along with a full bibliography of the source material for this book. Each essay has a little footnote at the beginning that tells you when and where the essay was published. This allows for a placing of public opinion to some extent.