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Great handbook!
Jon Stewart has done a great job with this collection. The photography is excellent, with the flowers shown "in-situ", usually with foliage and the colors are rendered quite accurately, unlike the overrated Audubon books. We are photography hobbyists and really enjoy this handbook to help us identify our own "captures". We traipse the Anza Borrego desert and Joshua Tree NP and have only found a few we couldn't identify.

Wildflower Guide
This is the best book on wildflower identification and background I have ever seen . Tons of color photos and descriptions. A must have for wildflower inthusiasts.

Beautiful Pictures!
Although 1999 was not a big wildflower year for Southern California deserts, I enjoyed my opportunity to use this elegant book.Anyone who has spent time with the typical wildflower handbook knows that the flowers thatyou do not already know are usually in the black and white plate sectionand that you waste endless time flipping back and forth between thephotographs in one section and the discussion in another.This book solvesthis problem by devoting an entire color page to each flower with adiscussion aimed at enthusiastic amateurs directly beneath the photo.Iapplaud this easy to use and enjoy format and the beauty and readability ofits contents. ... Read more

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Racing Stewart
I've been a fan of the wee Scott for many years following his career first as a driver and now as an entrant. One cannot imagine the problems faced by someone wanting to enter the competitive world of Formula One motor racinguntil you read this book.

A very informative account of the conception,launch and first year of a brand new Grand Prix race team. The book isextremely well written and supplemented by beautiful photography in bothb&w and colour.

Now that Stewart Grand Prix has been bought out byJaguar, this book is a must for any Formula One fan and provides a muchvalued documentary of this era of Grand Prix history.

Fantastic!
I read a lot of books for research on starting a Race team, this is one of the best books I chose!!This book takes you though the in's and out's and up's and down's of starting Stewart Ford.A lot of books give WAY too muchdetail, this one is just right, it gives the reader (race fan) just theright amount of content and excitement in the text followed by wonderfulcolor and black and white photos.If you were not a Stewart Ford fanbefore, this book will at least make you have a little pull for them comerace day.If you are interested in how it all started this is a greatbook, I couldn't put it down, it kept me going from front cover to back...I'll be looking for them this race year!

Read into the making of a Grand Prix team, from scratch
As fan of the Stewart Grand prix team, this book was the number one book on my christmas list last year. Here, a grand prix team opens it's doors to you, and shows you around. The whole book charts the first year of theStewart Team in the world of F1. Described to you are the problems,barriers and hinderances in the way of setting up a grand prix team fromnext to nothing. It also re-accounts the moments of joy and greatacheivement the team had in it's first year. "The" book for anysupporter of the new guys in F1. ... Read more

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The Phenomenology of Spirit was Hegel's first major philosophical work and is considered by many to be his masterpiece. Its several hundred pages treat topics as diverse as Greek drama, religion, medieval court culture, natural science, Romanticism, and the Enlightenment. Hegel regarded it as the introduction to his philosophical system as a whole, and it is often thought to be the most accessible work in his otherwise difficult philosophical corpus.

This anthology represents the most complete collection of essays on the Phenomenology in any language. It follows Hegel's table of contents, and all of the major sections of the work are covered. The main goal guiding the selection of essays was to collect the best articles written on the Phenomenology by distinguished international Hegel scholars and at the same time to provide systematic coverage. Although the essays are all by leading Hegel scholars, none of them presupposes any particular in-depth knowledge of Hegel or German philosophy. The object of the book is thus to make the Phenomenology more accessible for students while serving as an impetus for further Anglo-American Hegel research.

Among the contributors to the book are Howard Adelman, John W. Burbidge, Martin De Nys, Kenley R. Dove, Katharina Dulckeit, Joseph C. Flay, Moltke S. Gram, Daniel P. Jamros, George Armstrong Kelly, Alasdair MacIntyre, Mitchell H. Miller, Jr., Patricia Jagentowicz Mills, Karlheinz Nusser, David W. Price, John Sallis, Harald Schondorf, Gary Shapiro, Jean-Louis Vieillard-Baron, Kenneth R. Westphal, and Merold Westphal. ... Read more

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The uplands are a crucial source of ecosystem services, such as water provision, carbon retention, maintenance of biodiversity, provision of recreation value and cultural heritage. This puts them in the focus of both environmental and social scientists as well as practitioners and land managers.. This volume brings together a wealth of knowledge of the British uplands from diverse but interrelated fields of study, clearly demonstrating their importance in 21st Century Britain, and indicating how we may through interdisciplinary approaches meet the challenges provided by past and future drivers of environmental change.

The upland environments are subject to change. They face imminent threats as well as opportunities from pressures such as climate change, changes in land management and related changes in fire risk, increases in erosion and water colour, degradation of habitats, altered wildlife and recreational value, as well as significant changes in the economy of these marginal areas. This book presents up-to-date scientific background information, addresses policy related issues and lays out pressing land management questions. A number of world-class experts provide a review of cutting-edge natural
and social science and an assessment of past, current and potential future management strategies, policies and other drivers of change. After appraisal of key concepts and principles, chapters provide specific examples and applications by focussing on UK upland areas and specifically the Peak District National Park as a key example for other highly valuable upland regions.

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Jon Stewart's groundbreaking study is a major re-evaluation of the complex relationship between the philosophies of Kierkegaard and Hegel.Although the standard view on the subject is that Kierkegaard defined himself as explicitly anti-Hegelian (and viewed Hegel's philosophy with disdain), Jon Stewart demonstrates that Kierkegaard's criticism was not directed specifically to Hegel, but actually to some contemporary Danish Hegelians. ... Read more

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OH MY LORD!!!!!
It's not Amazon's fault that there is more than one person named Jon Stewart.It's the CONSUMER'S responsibility to do the research and figure out what the Daily Show's Jon Stewart wrote and what he didn't.All one needs to do is look at the back cover of this book (ON THIS SITE) and any moron can see it's some professor not the comedian.The stupidity of people STILL amazes me; and it amazes me that it still amazes me. (heavy sigh...)

Ah!the foibles of name-changing
First off, I was planning to write a review on TDS's 'America the Book - A guide to democracy inaction' which I have read cover-to-cover. But alas, there are already a gazillion excellent reviews for that book...so here I am! I had studied Existential Philosophy in college so I do know a little bit about Soren Kierkegaard who I found to be one of the more interesting philosophers to study. Okay, so I may have only studied existentialism for one semester, but I did get a solid 'A' in the class and it was one of my favorites, especially when the prof would ask us questions like 'Why would we not want to have sex with a tree?'! Anyhoo, my point is that this book interested me for non-TDS's Jon Stewart reasons, and given the authors knowledge of the subject, this is a great read for any of you deep-in-thought existentialist philosophy junkies out there who find Kierkegaard fascinating. It's probably a good idea to read for any of you existentialist philosophy students out there who need to write a paper on Kierkegaard's relations to Hegel. If that's the case, I would find the cut-'n-paste method to be very effective and efficient (just don't forget to cite your sources...correctly...as some prof's will take some serious points off your paper if you don't!).

Now for those of you who unwittingly ended up buying or almost buying this book in conjunction with one of TDS's Jon Stewart's books, here's a thought.What if generations from now TDS's Jon Stewart's descendants (especially the ones that like to make jokes) would be just as confused and would seriously think that this book was written by one of their ancestors? Now that would be the real joke in my opinion. *LOL*

Think before you act
People who are buying this book thinking that it is Jon Stewart of the Daily Show's book are obviously NOT thinking. Look at the title!

And the people who are leaving 1 star reviews to an innocent author because they are not intelligent enough to read a title should not be reading books.

"Daily Show" fans, it's a JOKE with a POINT.
Attention Amazon shoppers, Jon "The Daily Show" Stewart's mentioning this book in his promotion is, of course, a joke. But the joke's on you if you aren't paying attention. Viewers of "The Daily Show" know that one of the underlying morals of Jon's humor is: BE AWARE, BE SKEPTICAL. Be analytical. Pay attention to what you read, see, hear, in the news, from politicians, from corporations, in ads, in propaganda, in Orwellian doublespeak now commonly known as Bush-speak. So don't be mad at this absurd link. Laugh, and appreciate the funny guy Stewart's bravery to poke profound fun everywhere he leaves his mark - from "The Daily Show" to "Crossfire" to Amazon. (And if you're a Kierkegaard fan, you know you want the book if you are willing to pay upwards of umpteen bucks for it, so don't delay! And pick up a copy of "America: The Book" while you're at it.)

In related news, "Daily Show" fans, we're in a period of American politics and democracy that deserve and even DEMAND lots of attention and lots of skepticism from all us citizen types, so PLEASE, practice your skepticism (and your humor) until you get really good at it.

More power to the people!

Jon da Vinci
Jon Stewart is truly one of the most literate and inspiring individuals in public life.His mastery of American politics, philosophy, and comedic form, ensure his place in history, and should make us all appreciate that we are living in a time second only to the Italian renaissance in terms of creative development. ... Read more

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Amazon.com Exclusive Content Jon Stewart on America (The Book) Sure, we could write a pithy blurb telling you all about America (The Book), by Jon Stewart and the writers of The Daily Show, but it's much easier--and funnier--to let Jon Stewart tell you all about this irreverent book himself. Watch Jon Stewart talk to Amazon.com customers about America (The Book) from the set of The Daily Show. Read or listen to our exclusive interview with Jon Stewart. Read our exclusive Election 2004 interview with Jon Stewart. ... Read more

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Are you dumb?
Stupid stupid stupid.Surely you know better than to think that this is Jon Stewart of Daily Show fame!Did you even know what the words on the front of the book meant???

Idiots
I think it's funny that after reading reviews for this and another book bearing the name Jon Stewart, that they think this is the same Jon Stewart as the one from the Daily Show. Well, lets consider for a moment that Jon Stewart from the Daily show deals with Politics and not Phenomena or Existentialism. If you're looking for the quick satire of the political guru/funnyman, then don't shell out the money to get something that quite obviously isn't from him. Maybe people should follow his cue and start investigating before they believe in something.

Very dry
I picked up this book and was very disappointed--even more disappointed than after watching Death to Smoochy.It lacked all of the wit and satirical insight that Stewart usually brings with both his writing and delivery.Granted, his performance in the movies that he has been in have somewhat failed to bring forth his dynamic humor, but this book failed beyond that of even his movies.Unfortunately, the ending never delivered the cynical turnaround/punchline that I thought he spent most of the book setting up.Honestly, I can't really even enjoy his show any more.Stay away, this book is bad news.

A great book, but hides in shallow waters
This book, although amusing in sound, lacks the depth and intricacy that normally shows the extremely involved beliefs of both Sartre and Merleau-Ponty. ... Read more

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The polymath Johan Ludvig Heiberg (1791-1860) represented in many ways a kind of crossroads in the Danish Golden Age, where many different figures and cultural institutions converged. Although he has been studied for years in his native Denmark, he has not enjoyed the same reception abroad. Recently, however, his work has begun to catch the eye of international scholars, and, largely as a result of their efforts, Heiberg has now become a familiar name among the most recent generation of Anglophone and international researchers working in fields such as Scandinavian literature, Danish theatre history and Kierkegaard studies. However, Heiberg was one of the most versatile figures of his age, and the full scope of his activity and thought is still far from being adequately explored in the literature. The collection features articles from leading Danish and international experts that reflect the different dimensions of Heiberg's thought. The volume is thus interdisciplinary in an attempt to cover as many different aspects of Heiberg's intellectual activity as possible.It is divided into four rubrics: Philosophy, Literature and Criticism, Drama and Aesthetics, and Politics and Social Criticism. The hope is that this collection will encourage students and scholars to further explore the different dimensions of Heiberg's thought, both on its own terms and in connection with other important figures such as Soren Kierkegaard and Hans Christian Andersen. ... Read more

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Inspired by G W F Hegel's system, Johan Ludvig Heiberg authored a series of essays and monographs on different philosophical issues in both Danish and German; these works began after his famous encounter with Hegel in Berlin in 1824 and continued for the next two decades. This volume features Heiberg's early work, "Contingency Regarded from the Point of View of Logic" (1825), which represents a pseudoHegelian account of the categories of contingency and necessity. Two years later Heiberg published a sequel to this treatise, entitled, "Nemesis: A Popular-Philosophical Investigation". This work attempts to demonstrate that even though we today no longer believe in Nemesis as a goddess who has control over our lives, nevertheless we very often make use of the concept of nemesis without knowing it. The volume also includes several other philosophical and literary articles primarily from Heiberg's journal "Kjobenhavns flyvende Post". These articles, which date from between 1825 and 1843, serve as a useful introduction to the different aspects of Heiberg's philosophical thinking and supplement his more extensive monographs in this field. ... Read more

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This volume features articles which employ source-work research to trace Kierkegaard's understanding and use of authors from the Patristic and Medieval traditions. It covers an extraordinarily long period of time from Cyprian and Tertullian in the second century to Thomas a Kempis in the fifteenth. Despite its heterogeneity and diversity in many aspects, this volume has a clear point of commonality in all its featured sources: Christianity.Kierkegaard's relation to the Patristic and Medieval traditions has been a rather neglected area of research in Kierkegaard studies. This is somewhat surprising given the fact that the young Kierkegaard learned about the Patristic authors during his studies at the University of Copenhagen and was clearly fascinated by many aspects of their writings and the conceptions of Christian religiosity found there.With regard to the medieval tradition, in addition to any number of theological issues, medieval mysticism, medieval art, the medieval church, troubadour poetry and the monastic movement were all themes that exercised Kierkegaard during different periods of his life.Although far from uncritical, he seems at times to idolize both the Patristic tradition and the Middle Ages as contrastive terms to the corrupt and decadent modern world with its complacent Christianity. While he clearly regards the specific forms of this Medieval appropriation of Christianity to be misguided, he is nonetheless positively disposed toward the general understanding of it as something to be lived and realized by each individual. ... Read more

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"Heiberg's Perseus" represents a landmark in Golden Age culture. It was published in June 1837 as part of his long-standing campaign to convert his contemporaries to G W F Hegel's philosophical system. He calls upon the Greek hero Perseus to be the champion for the cause of Hegelian idealism and to do battle with the pernicious Me-dusa of realism and empiricism. Perseus formed part of his general attempt to correct what he regarded as the philosophical prejudices and misunderstandings of his age. It was widely read and discussed among Danish students and intellectuals of the time, reviewed at length by the philosopher Frederik Christian Sibbern and satirised by Soren Kierkegaard. ... Read more

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Although Kierkegaard's reception was initially more or less limited to Scandinavia, it has for a long time now been a highly international affair. As his writings were translated into different languages his reputation spread, and he became read more and more by people increasingly distant from his native Denmark. While in Scandinavia, the attack on the Church in the last years of his life became something of a cause celebre, later, many different aspects of his work became the object of serious scholarly investigation well beyond the original northern borders. As his reputation grew, he was co-opted by a number of different philosophical and religious movements in different contexts throughout the world. The three tomes of this volume attempt to record the history of this reception according to national and linguistic categories.Tome I covers the reception of Kierkegaard in Northern and Western Europe. The articles on Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Iceland can be said to trace Kierkegaard's influence in its more or less native Nordic Protestant context.Since the authors in these countries (with the exception of Finland) were not dependent on translations or other intermediaries, this represents the earliest tradition of Kierkegaard reception. The early German translations of his works opened the door for the next phase of the reception which expanded beyond the borders of the Nordic countries. The articles in the section on Western Europe trace his influence in Great Britain, the Netherlands and Flanders, Germany and Austria, and France. All of these countries and linguistic groups have their own extensive tradition of Kierkegaard reception. ... Read more

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Exploring Kierkegaard's complex use of the Bible, the essays in this volume use source-critical research and tools ranging from literary criticism to theology and biblical studies, to situate Kierkegaard's appropriation of the biblical material in his cultural and intellectual context. The contributors seek to identify the possible sources that may have influenced Kierkegaard's understanding and employment of Scripture, and to describe the debates about the Bible that may have shaped, perhaps indirectly, his attitudes toward Scripture. They also pay close attention to Kierkegaard's actual hermeneutic practice, analyzing the implicit interpretive moves that he makes as well as his more explicit statements about the significance of various biblical passages. This close reading of Kierkegaard's texts elucidates the unique and sometimes odd features of his frequent appeals to Scripture. This volume in the series devotes one tome to the Old Testament and a second tome to the New Testament. As with the Old Testament, Kierkegaard was aware of new developments in New Testament scholarship, and troubled by them.Because these scholarly projects generated alternative understandings of the significance of Jesus, they impinged directly on his own work. It was crucial for Kierkegaard that Jesus is presented as both the enactment of God's reconciliation with humanity and as the prototype for humanity to emulate. Consequently, Kierkegaard had to struggle with the proper way to explicate persuasively the significance of Jesus in a situation of decreasing academic consensus about Jesus. He also had to contend with contested interpretations of James and Paul, two biblical authors vital for his work. As a result, Kierkegaard ruminated about the proper way to appropriate the New Testament and used material from it carefully and deliberately. The authors in the present New Testament tome seek to clarify different dimensions of Kierkegaard's interpretive theory and practice as he sought to avoid the twin pitfalls of academic skepticism and passionless biblical traditionalism. ... Read more

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While Kierkegaard's use of the Greek authors, particularly Plato and Aristotle, has attracted considerable attention over the years, his use of the Roman authors has, by contrast, remained sadly neglected. This neglect is somewhat surprising given the fact that Kierkegaard was extremely well read in Latin from his early youth when he attended the Borgerdyd School in Copenhagen. Kierkegaard's interest in the Roman authors is perhaps best evidenced by his book collection. In his private library he had a long list of Latin titles and Danish translations of the standard Roman authors in any number of different genres. His extensive and frequent use of writers such as Cicero, Horace, Terence, Seneca, Suetonius and Ovid clearly warrants placing them in the select group of his major sources.The chapters in this volume demonstrate that Kierkegaard made use of the Roman sources in a number of different ways. His readings from the Borgerdyd school seem to have stuck with him as an adult. He constantly refers to Roman authors, such as Livy, Nepos, and Suetonius for colourful stories and anecdotes.In addition, he avails himself of pregnant sayings or formulations from the Roman authors, when appropriate. But his use of these authors is not merely as a rhetorical source. He is also profoundly interested in the Roman philosophy of Cicero, Seneca and Marcus Aurelius. Similarly, just as he is fascinated by Tacitus' portrayal of the early Christians, so also he is amused by the humour of Terence and Apuleius. In short, the Roman authors serve to enrich any number of different aspects of Kierkegaard's authorship with respect to both content and form. ... Read more

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Although Kierkegaard's reception was initially more or less limited to Scandinavia, it has for a long time now been a highly international affair. As his writings were translated into different languages his reputation spread, and he became read more and more by people increasingly distant from his native Denmark. While in Scandinavia, the attack on the Church in the last years of his life became something of a cause celebre, later, many different aspects of his work became the object of serious scholarly investigation well beyond the original northern borders. As his reputation grew, he was co-opted by a number of different philosophical and religious movements in different contexts throughout the world. The three tomes of this volume attempt to record the history of this reception according to national and linguistic categories.Tome III is the most geographically diverse, covering the Near East, Asia, Australia and the Americas. The section on the Near East features pioneering articles on the Kierkegaard reception in Israel, Turkey, Iran and the Arab world.The next section dubbed "Asia and Australia" features articles on the long and rich traditions of Kierkegaard research in Japan and Korea along with the more recent ones in China and Australia. A final section is dedicated to Americas with articles on Canada, the United States, hispanophone South America, Mexico and Brazil. ... Read more

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Although Kierkegaard's reception was initially more or less limited to Scandinavia, it has for a long time now been a highly international affair. As his writings were translated into different languages his reputation spread, and he became read more and more by people increasingly distant from his native Denmark. While in Scandinavia, the attack on the Church in the last years of his life became something of a cause celebre, later, many different aspects of his work became the object of serious scholarly investigation well beyond the original northern borders. As his reputation grew, he was co-opted by a number of different philosophical and religious movements in different contexts throughout the world. The three tomes of this volume attempt to record the history of this reception according to national and linguistic categories."Tome II" covers the reception of Kierkegaard in Southern, Central and Eastern Europe. The first set of articles, under the rubric 'Southern Europe', covers Portugal, Spain, and Italy. A number of common features were shared in these countries' reception of Kierkegaard, including a Catholic cultural context and a debt to the French reception.The next rubric covers the rather heterogeneous group of countries designated here as 'Central Europe': Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Poland. These countries are loosely bound in a cultural sense by their former affiliation with the Habsburg Empire and in a religious sense by their shared Catholicism. Finally, the Orthodox countries of 'Eastern Europe' are represented with articles on Russia, Bulgaria, Serbia and Montenegro, Macedonia, and Romania. ... Read more

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The articles in this volume employ source-work research to trace Kierkegaard's understanding and use of authors from the Greek tradition. A series of figures of varying importance in Kierkegaard's authorship are treated, ranging from early Greek poets to late Classical philosophical schools. In general it can be said that the Greeks collectively constitute one of the single most important body of sources for Kierkegaard's thought. He studied Greek from an early age and was profoundly inspired by what might be called the Greek spirit. Although he is generally considered a Christian thinker, he was nonetheless consistently drawn back to the Greeks for ideas and impulses on any number of topics. He frequently contrasts ancient Greek philosophy, with its emphasis on the lived experience of the individual in daily life, with the abstract German philosophy that was in vogue during his own time. It has been argued that he modeled his work on that of the ancient Greek thinkers specifically in order to contrast his own activity with that of his contemporaries.While "Tome I" treats the different sources for Socrates, "Tome II" features articles dedicated to the rest of Kierkegaard's Greek sources, beginning with a section containing several articles on different aspects of Aristotle's writings that influenced his thought. This is followed by another section featuring analyses of other Greek philosophers and philosophical schools, which were important for him. Finally, a third section explores Kierkegaard's uses of a handful of Greek poets, dramatists and historians. ... Read more

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The long period from the Renaissance to the nineteenth century supplied numerous sources for Kierkegaard's thought in any number of different fields. The present, rather heterogeneous volume covers the long period from the birth of Savonarola in 1452 through the beginning of the nineteenth century and into Kierkegaard's own time. The Danish thinker read authors representing vastly different traditions and time periods. Moreover, he also read a diverse range of genres. His interests concerned not just philosophy, theology and literature but also drama and music. The present volume consists of three tomes that are intended to cover Kierkegaard's sources in these different fields of thought. Tome III covers the sources that are relevant for literature, drama and music. Kierkegaard was well read in the European literature of the seventeenth and eighteenth century. He was captivated by the figure of Cervantes' Don Quixote, who is used as a model for humor and irony. He also enjoyed French literature, represented here by articles on Chateaubriand, Lamartine, and Merimee.French dramatists were popular on the Danish stage, and Kierkegaard demonstrated an interest in, among others, Moliere and Scribe. Although he never possessed strong English skills, this did not prevent him from familiarizing himself with English literature, primarily with the help of German translations. While there is an established body of secondary material on Kierkegaard's relation to Shakespeare, little has been said about his use of the Irish dramatist Sheridan. It is obvious from, among other things, The Concept of Irony that Kierkegaard knew in detail the works of some of the main writers of the German Romantic movement. However, his use of the leading figures of the British Romantic movement, Byron and Shelley, remains largely unexplored terrain. The classic Danish authors of the eighteenth century, Holberg, Wessel and Ewald, were influential figures who prepared the way for the Golden Age of Danish poetry. Kierkegaard constantly refers to their dramatic characters, whom he often employs to illustrate a philosophical idea with a pregnant example or turn of phrase.Finally, while Kierkegaard is not an obvious name in musicology, his analysis of Mozart's Don Giovanni shows that he had a keen interest in music on many different levels. ... Read more

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Something long needed in Kierkegaard scholarship
This first volume of what is expected to be a 13-volume set marks an important milestone in Kierkegaard scholarship. It, when completed, will be a full English translation of all of Kierkegaard's voluminous private musing about all kinds of subjects. Until now, those who cannot read Danish were relegated to scattered translations of parts of these important writings. The best was the Hong's 6-volume "Journals and Papers," which had two major faults; it was incomplete and was organized by topics. The 13-volumes of this set will be chronological insofar as that is possible, and that will make it much easier to study Kierkegaard's development and progression of thought. I hope that this set will be published in a searchable electronic form and that the price becomes much more reasonable. ... Read more