She surmises that those tears, prompted by the dramatisation of a work by the Danish writer and thinker, flow because this tribute to the figure she has studied so devotedly is “casting a sideways ...
“A marriage is so hideously private,” the novelist and philosopher Iris Murdoch wrote in 1978. “Whoever illicitly draws back that curtain may well be stricken, and in some way that he can least ...
The Marriage Question: George Eliot’s Double Life; by Clare Carlisle; Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 400 pp., $30.00 In 1855, Eliot wrote to a friend: “If there be any one subject on which I feel no ...
Clare Carlisle is a professor of philosophy at King’s College London. Her books include Philosopher of the Heart: The Restless Life of Søren Kierkegaard and The Marriage Question: George Eliot’s ...
When George Eliot agreed (reluctantly, by all accounts) to have her portrait made in 1865, she surely never imagined that her face would be forever linked with her published works. Yet today when we ...
Carlisle (On Habit), reader in philosophy and theology at King’s College London, makes an intimidatingly chilly and mercurial figure relatable to readers in this admirable biography. By weaving Søren ...
Clare Carlisle took exception to my review in the Times Literary Supplement of her biography of Kierkegaard (“Alone for dinner” TLS 4 October 2019). She accused me in a letter to the editor in the ...
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Clare Carlisle’s wonderful new biography of Søren Kierkegaard is not an easy read. If you are simply looking for the facts of Kierkegaard’s life, Alastair Hannay’s Kierkegaard: A Biography or Stephen ...
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