Clare Carlisle Reihenfolge der Bücher (Chronologisch)

When she was in her mid-thirties, Marian Evans transformed herself into George Eliot - an author celebrated for her genius as soon as she published her debut novel. During those years she also found her life partner, George Lewes - writer, philosopher and married father of three. After 'eloping' to Berlin in 1854 they lived together for twenty-four years- Eliot asked people to call her 'Mrs Lewes' and dedicated each novel to her 'Husband'. Though they could not legally marry, she felt herself initiated into the 'great experience' of marriage - 'this double life, which helps me to feel and think with double strength'. The relationship scandalized her contemporaries yet she grew immeasurably within it. Living at once inside and outside marriage, Eliot could experience this form of life - so familiar yet also so perplexing - from both sides. In The Marriage Question Clare Carlisle reveals Eliot to be not only a great artist but a brilliant philosopher who probes the tensions and complexities of a shared life. Through the immense ambition and dark marriage plots of her novels we see Eliot wrestling - in art and in life - with themes of desire and sacrifice, motherhood and creativity, trust and disillusion, destiny and chance. Reading them afresh, Carlisle's searching new biography explores how marriage questions grow and change, and joins Eliot in her struggle to marry thought and feeling.

Spinoza is often labeled as either an atheist or a pantheist, but Clare Carlisle argues that he embodies neither. In her interpretation, she presents a fresh reading of Spinoza's Ethics, placing the question of religion at its core while avoiding a conversion of Spinozism to Christianity. Carlisle reveals that "being in God" connects Spinoza's metaphysics and ethics, offering a powerful, inclusive philosophical vision relevant to modern life. The Ethics, much like Spinoza himself, transcends conventional religious categories, engaging with religion in uniquely original ways. It critically and constructively addresses the diverse Christian context of Spinoza's time. For Spinoza, philosophy was a spiritual pursuit that reflected his commitment to a truthful and virtuous life. Carlisle provides new insights into Spinoza's complex ideas about eternal life and the intellectual love of God, revealing a Spinozist religion that intertwines self-knowledge, desire, practice, and ethical living in the pursuit of our 'highest happiness'—to find rest in God. Through Carlisle's perspective, the Ethics encourages a reevaluation of both Spinoza and the concept of religion itself.

»Kierkegaard ist einer der überragenden philosophischen Schriftsteller. Sein literarischer Rang wird in einem Atemzug mit Plato, Augustinus, Voltaire und Nietzsche genannt. Sören Kierkegaard dachte immer existentiell, nie nur mit dem ›Hirn‹, sondern immer mit dem Herzen.« Was bedeutet es, ein Mensch zu sein? Für Kierkegaard umgreift diese Frage nach dem Leben und der eigenen Existenz alle anderen Fragen. Er inspirierte Wittgenstein, Jaspers, Heidegger, Rilke, Camus und Sartre und beeinflusste die Theologen des 20. Jahrhunderts. Neben Hegel, Marx und Nietzsche ist Sören Kierkegaard der wichtigste Philosoph des 19. Jahrhunderts. Als Sohn, Student, Dandy, Bürgerschreck und Verlobter scheiterte er kläglich. Bis heute ist er einer der ungewöhnlichsten Außenseiter der Philosophie geblieben. Sein Denken erzählt Clare Carlisle, indem sie Kierkegaards Persönlichkeit, Leben und Existenz vor ihren Lesern aufleben lässt. Das ergreifende Schicksal eines der bedeutendsten Philosophen, der viel zu unbekannt ist. Ein Autor für Zeiten des Umbruchs – also für unsere Zeit. Stimmen zum Buch:»Diese fesselnde neue Biographie zeigt, warum Kierkegaard als Persönlichkeit so faszinierend ist.« Observer