Stages on Life's Way, the sequel to Either/Or, 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. Stages on Life's Way 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 Concluding Unscientific Postscript. ?
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ISBN
9781400846986
Publisert
2013
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Princeton University Press
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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