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The Seducer's Diary (New in Paperback) by Søren Kierkegaard, Howard V. Hong, Edna H. Hong, John Updike, Demetrio Gutiérrez Rivero, Alastair Hannay, Joaquín Saint Aymour is a philosophy book available to read on EtoBox.

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"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 Søren Kierkegaard's narrative. This work, a chapter from Kierkegaard's first major volume, __Either/Or__, springs from his relationship with his fiancée, 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 resulted. His attempt to set right, in writing, what he feels was a mistake in his relationship with Olsen taught him the secret of "indirect communication." __The Seducer's Diary__, then, becomes Kierkegaard's attempt to portray himself as a scoundrel and thus make their break easier for her. Matters of marriage, the ethical versus the aesthetic, dread, and, increasingly, the severities of Christianity are pondered by Kierkegaard in this intense work.

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Author

Søren Kierkegaard, Howard V. Hong, Edna H. Hong, John Updike, Demetrio Gutiérrez Rivero, Alastair Hannay, Joaquín Saint Aymour

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9786910117373

Category

philosophy

Subjects

Religion, Memoir, Literary Fiction