Description: Title: The Seducer's Diary Author: Kierkegaard, Søren Publisher: Princeton University Press Binding: Paperback Pages: 232 Dimensions: 7.42h x 4.65w x 0.66d Product Weight: 0.38 lbs. Language: English ISBN: 9780691158419 "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 S ren 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. Ships Fast From The USA! Authorized Dealer
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Book Title: Seducer's Diary
Number of Pages: 232 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Topic: Movements / Existentialism, Personal Memoirs, Religious, Biographical
Item Height: 0.5 in
Publication Year: 2013
Genre: Philosophy, Fiction, Biography & Autobiography
Item Weight: 6 Oz
Item Length: 7.4 in
Author: Søren Kierkegaard
Item Width: 4.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
