Description: The Seducer's Diary by Søren Kierkegaard (2013, Trade Paperback) "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 nar-rative. 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, and 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 felt was a mistake in his relationship with Olsen taught him the secret of "indirect communication." The Seducer's Diary, then, became 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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Book Title: Seducer's Diary
Item Length: 7.4 in
Item Height: 0.5 in
Item Width: 4.5 in
Author: Søren Kierkegaard
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Topic: Movements / Existentialism, Personal Memoirs, Religious, Biographical
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication Year: 2013
Genre: Biography & Autobiography, Philosophy, Fiction
Item Weight: 6 Oz
Number of Pages: 232 Pages
