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With laughter on his side, Stuart Dalton playfully employs the Anti-Assistant-Professor Method and succeeds in showing readers how to misunderstand Kierkegaard. Readers familiar with Kierkegaard's writings will unlearn many fine things, while those new to the weird world of Kierkegaard will find that humor is the best aid to learning what one does and doesn't need to know. --Michael Strawser, University of Central Florida Stuart Dalton's Kierkegaard is fun, funny, and joyously playful. Amid the growing pile of worthy tomes on the Danish thinker, this stands out like a jewel: sparkling, entertaining, and genuinely insightful. If there were one book I'd want to put into the hands of a new reader of Kierkegaard, this would be it. Enjoy the ride! --Steven Shakespeare, Liverpool Hope University In How to Misunderstand Kierkegaard, Stuart Dalton does Kierkegaard the immense service of presenting his thought in a way that would further its impact on readers. Few have managed to synthesize humor and earnestness in order to achieve true earnestness, as Kierkegaard wished us to do. For adopting the earnestness that Kierkegaard recommended and making good use of it to introduce his thought, I wholeheartedly recommend this work. --Lydia Amir, Tufts University

"""With laughter on his side, Stuart Dalton playfully employs the Anti-Assistant-Professor Method and succeeds in showing readers how to misunderstand Kierkegaard. Readers familiar with Kierkegaard's writings will unlearn many fine things, while those new to the weird world of Kierkegaard will find that humor is the best aid to learning what one does and doesn't need to know."" --Michael Strawser, University of Central Florida ""Stuart Dalton's Kierkegaard is fun, funny, and joyously playful. Amid the growing pile of worthy tomes on the Danish thinker, this stands out like a jewel: sparkling, entertaining, and genuinely insightful. If there were one book I'd want to put into the hands of a new reader of Kierkegaard, this would be it. Enjoy the ride!"" --Steven Shakespeare, Liverpool Hope University ""In How to Misunderstand Kierkegaard, Stuart Dalton does Kierkegaard the immense service of presenting his thought in a way that would further its impact on readers. Few have managed to synthesize humor and earnestness in order to achieve true earnestness, as Kierkegaard wished us to do. For adopting the earnestness that Kierkegaard recommended and making good use of it to introduce his thought, I wholeheartedly recommend this work."" --Lydia Amir, Tufts University"

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Stuart Dalton is a philosophy professor at Western Connecticut State University in Danbury, Connecticut.

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