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<p><i>Stages on Life's Way</i>, the sequel to <i>Either/Or</i>, is an intensely poetic example of Kierkegaard's vision of the three stages, or spheres, of existence: the esthetic, the ethical, and the religious. With characteristic love for mystification, he presents the work as a bundle of documents fallen by chance into the hands of "Hilarius Bookbinder," who prepared them for printing. The book begins with a banquet scene patterned on Plato's Symposium. (George Brandes maintained that "one must recognize with amazement that it holds its own in this comparison.") Next is a discourse by "Judge William" in praise of marriage "in answer to objections." The remainder of the volume, almost two-thirds of the whole, is the diary of a young man, discovered by "Frater Taciturnus," who was deeply in love but felt compelled to break his engagement. The work closes with a letter to the reader from Taciturnus on the three "existence-spheres" represented by the three parts of the book.</p> <p><i>Stages on Life's Way</i> not only repeats themes, characters, and pseudonymous authors of the earlier works but also goes beyond them and points to further development of central ideas in <i>Concluding

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Author

Kierkegaard, Søren; Hong, Howard V.; Hong, Edna H.

Publisher

NJ : Princeton University Press

Published

1988

Language

EN

ISBN

9781400846986

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Philosophy, History, Religion

Rating

4.1 / 5 (163 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14