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Clare Carlisle

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Manchester, The United Kingdom

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Clare Carlisle is a British philosopher and biographer. She is the author of books on Baruch Spinoza, Søren Kierkegaard, and George Eliot. She was born in Manchester in 1977. She studied philosophy at Trinity College, Cambridge between 1995 and 2002. She is a professor at King's College London. In 2024 she gave the Gifford Lectures at the University of St Andrews. Her writing has appeared in the Guardian, The Nation, the Times Literary Supplement, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. ...more

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	Philosopher of the Heart: The Restless Life of Søren Kierkegaard 4.03 avg rating — 892 ratings — published 2019 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Marriage Question: George Eliot's Double Life 4.14 avg rating — 435 ratings — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Transcendence for Beginners 4.05 avg rating — 155 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Spinoza's Religion: A New Reading of the Ethics 4.41 avg rating — 116 ratings — published 2021 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kierkegaard: A Guide for the Perplexed 3.84 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 2007 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kierkegaard's World: How to Believe 3.81 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kierkegaard's 'Fear and Trembling': A Reader's Guide 4.40 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2010 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	On Habit 3.81 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2014 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kierkegaard's Philosophy of Becoming: Movements and Positions 3.81 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2005 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Philosophy as Therapeia (Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements, Series Number 66) by Clare Carlisle (Editor), Jonardon Ganeri (Editor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2010 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Through such repetitions people keep their promises, and endure through time. They return to themselves, but by stepping forwards, not by thinking back – and this is how human beings remain true to their loves.”
― Clare Carlisle, Philosopher of the Heart: The Restless Life of Søren Kierkegaard

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― Clare Carlisle, The Marriage Question: George Eliot's Double Life

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“The most important thing, she told Oscar Browning — a flamboyant Eton schoolmaster who had become her devoted friend — was to ‘make a few lives near to us better than they would have been without our presence in the world’.”
― Clare Carlisle, The Marriage Question: George Eliot's Double Life

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