Joakim Garff

Joakim Garff

  • Karen Blixens Plads 16

    2300 København S

  • Source: Scopus
1983 …2024

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Personal profile

Short presentation

Joakim Garff is Associate Professor and writer at the Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre at the University of Copenhagen and has been a co-editor of Søren Kierkegaards Skrifter [Søren Kierkegaard's Writings] in 55 vols. Garff is the author of SAK, an award winning biography of Kierkegaard, which has been translated into a number of languages; into English as Søren Kierkegaard: A Biography (Princeton University Press, 2005). From 1992 to 1999 Garff was Chair of the Danish Kierkegaard Society. Most recent book is Regines gåde. Historien om Kierkegaards forlovede og Schlegels hustru (2013) [The Riddle of Regine: The Story about Kierkegaard's Fiancée and Schlegel's Wife]. Currently Garff is working on the research-project Nisus formativus, concerning Kierkegaard's concept of self-identity and his critical approach to culture.

Primary fields of research

• Kierkegaard Studies
• Danish Golden Age
• Aesthetics
• Biography
• Hermeneutics

Current research

Nisus formativus. Dannelse, identitetsdannelse og dannelseskritik

Keywords

  • Faculty of Theology