This was a good biography by Stephen Backhouse. I used to read a bit of philosophy when I was a teenager but what I most enjoyed was reading biographies about them. These philosophers were usually eccentrics. I haven't read anything on philosophy for more than ten years. However watching the first two seasons of "The Good Place" made me want to pick them up again so I got this. Kierkegaard was a Christian philosopher. More than twenty pages of the book goes into details on each of his specific works. You get to read about the love of his life Regine, who he shafted. (The book says incompatibility but I think Kierkegaard being scared had something to do with it.) I also learned about how Kierkegaard criticized many thinkers of his day, most later forgotten. I didn't know this side of him so I learned something.
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