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Soren Kierkegaard - The Seducer´s Diary - 9780691158419 - V9780691158419
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The Seducer´s Diary

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Description for The Seducer´s Diary Paperback. Matters of marriage, the ethical versus the aesthetic, dread, and, increasingly, the severities of Christianity are pondered by Kierkegaard in this intense work. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 150 x 186 x 16. Weight in Grams: 174.
"In the vast literature of love, The Seducer's Diary is an intricate curiosity--a feverishly intellectual attempt to reconstruct an erotic failure as a pedagogic success, a wound masked as a boast," observes John Updike in his foreword to Soren Kierkegaard's narrative. This work, a chapter from Kierkegaard's first major volume, Either/Or, springs from his relationship with his fiancee, Regine Olsen. Kierkegaard fell in love with the young woman, ten years his junior, proposed to her, but then broke off their engagement a year later. This event affected Kierkegaard profoundly. Olsen became a muse for him, and a flood of volumes ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
232
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691158419
SKU
V9780691158419
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Ref
99-50

About Soren Kierkegaard
The text is from Howard V. Hong's and Edna H. Hong's standard English translation of The Writings of Kierkegaard. The foreword by John Updike was specifically commissioned for this volume.

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