ABSTRACT
The book by Ricardo Quadros Gouvea, Passion for Paradox, was published in 2000 in Brazil. Gouvêa starts his undertaking by making an overview of what is conventionally called the Golden Age of Denmark. Following the lead of Walter Lowrie, Gouvêa also aims to present something which he refers to as "a very brief life of Kierkegaard". Finally, Gouvêa reaches the central theme of his work: the elucidation of Kierkegaard as a Christian thinker. In Gouvêa's view, there is a mistake and even a bias in the position of authors like Adorno, who seems not to understand that the fact that Kierkegaard is a Christian does not diminish his philosophy but strengthens it and places him in a select group of thinkers such as St. Augustine, Pascal, and many other paradoxical Christians. Gouvêa's book does little to treat the aesthetic part of Kierkegaard, and this is perhaps due to a proper delimitation of the study.
