Collection: Clare Carlisle

Clare Carlisle is the author of eight books on philosophy and philosophers, including Philosopher of the Heart: The Restless Life of Søren Kierkegaard and The Marriage Question: George Eliot’s Double Life, which won the 2024 PEN Prize for Biography. Carlisle grew up in Manchester, studied philosophy at Trinity College, Cambridge, and now lives in London. She is Professor of Philosophy at King’s College London.

Transcendence for Beginners

Transcendence for Beginners Clare Carlisle
Publication Date: Apr 07, 2026

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