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Kierkegaard, Soren; Dru, Alexander & Lowrie, Walter [Translators].
The Present Age.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, London;
Date of Publication: 1940
Stock Code: 14149
First Edition. Octavo pp., xii 163. Publisher’s black cloth with gilt titles to spine, in an unclipped, light blue dust-jacket. Top edge stained yellow. Fore-edge lightly foxed, dust-jacket spine tanned with a nick to the tail. Otherwise a near fine copy. Widely considered one of the first Christian Existentialists, Kierkegaard’s work focuses mainly on the act of living as a ‘single individual’. “The Present Age” is an analysis of the movements of his day, both social and political. It shares a name with one of his notable theories, the theory of present age which argues that the present has drained the the meaning from ethics through ‘passionless insolence’. £60.00