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A small, insignificant-looking intellectual with absurdly long legs, Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) was a veritable Hans Christian Andersen caricature of a man. A strange combination of witty cosmopolite and melancholy introvert, he spent years writing under a series of fantastical pseudonyms, lavishing all the splendor of his magnificent mind on a seldom-appreciative world. He had a tragic love affair with a young girl, was dominated by an unforgettable Old Testament father, fought a sensational literary duel with a popular satiric magazine, and died in the midst of a violent quarrel with the state church for which he had once studied theology. Yet this iconoclast produced a number of brilliant books that have profoundly influenced modern thought. In this classic biography, the celebrated Kierkegaard translator Walter Lowrie presents a charming and warmly appreciative introduction to the life and work of the great Danish writer. Lowrie tells the story of Kierkegaard's emotionally turbulent life with a keen sense of drama and an acute understanding of how his life shaped his thought. The result is a wonderfully informative and entertaining portrait of one of the most important thinkers of the past two centuries. This edition also includes Lowrie's wry essay \"How Kierkegaard Got into English,\" which tells the improbable story of how Lowrie became one of Kierkegaard's principal English translators despite not learning Danish until he was in his 60s, as well as a new introduction by Kierkegaard scholar Alastair Hannay.

A biography of the distinguished novelist, poet, preacher and social reformer, who typifies the Victorian man as closely as the Good Queen herself typifies the Victorian woman. Originally published in 1937. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

The Neanderthals were the first to adopt the wearing of neckties, and Prof. [Marmot Sinecure] believes that it is no coincidence that the Neanderthals died out, although not completely (if you listen to talk shows, some still call in). Little did the Neanderthals know that in putting the neckties around their necks, they would throttle the life out of themselves. As they died, their thoughts would have been similar to those of countless thousands of modern men sitting in corporate towers with neckties like giant hands tightening around their throats. The wise ones were not heeded, and the new race of humans, so smart in other ways, picked up where the Neanderthals left off. Heedless of any danger, the new furless humans went on to invent tuxedos and cummerbunds. It was but a short step from the savanna of Africa to the fashion runways of Milan.

It has been obvious for some years that the Steelers are really America's team, despite the pretensions of a bunch of show-offs in Dallas. Every Sunday, wherever the Steelers play, the stands are full of people waving Terrible Towels. Just this past Sunday in Jacksonville, it was estimated that at least 20,000 Steelers fans were there on the cheerful mission of irritating the locals. Of course, it takes more to be a Steelers fan than making eccentric vowel sounds while appreciating the fries on a sandwich. There has to be a love of the values that the Steelers represent. Prof. [Marmot Sinecure] argues that the very name \"Steelers\" denotes strength and hardness. \"We are lucky indeed that the polymer industry wasn't big in Pittsburgh, or the manufacture of ladies' corsets or artificial limbs,\" the professor said. \"None of these lend themselves to a handy monicker suggestive of the sort of values held dear by the Pittsburgh fans.\"