Before we get to your five book choices, could you say something about who Kierkegaard was?
Søren Kierkegaard was a Danish philosopher and writer. He was born in 1813 and died in 1855, and did most of his writing in the 1840s and 50s. Now he's often thought of as the father of existentialist thought, but he's really much more than that. He did have a huge influence on twentieth-century philosophy, but his philosophy is very rich and complex. It has religious, theological, and spiritual dimensions as well as the more forward-looking, modern themes that people might be more familiar with.
You've written several books about Kierkegaard, but the most recent one is a biography. Most philosophers' biographies are on the boring side; philosophers tend to be people who spend a lot of time in libraries, or writing, or just talking to people. But Kierkegaard is quite different in this respect. Why is he such an interesting subject for a biography?
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