# A Literary Review

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- Authors: [Sören Kierkegaard](https://www.bookquiver.com/soren-kierkegaard)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4044-801-6
- Pages: 144
- Published: 2001-10-25
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

While ostensibly commenting on the work of a contemporary novelist, Kierkegaard used this review as a critique of his society and age. The influence of this short piece has been far-reaching. The apocalyptic final sections are the source for central notions in Heidegger's Being and Time. Later readers have seized on the essay as a prophetic analysis of our own time. Its concepts have been drawn into current debates on identity, addiction, and social conformity.