Kierkegaard's Writing, III, Part I: Either/Or

✍ Scribed by Søren Kierkegaard (editor); Howard V. Hong (editor); Edna H. Hong (editor)

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 724
• Series: Kierkegaard's Writings; 25
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Søren Kierkegaard, the nineteenth-century Danish philosopher rediscovered in the twentieth century, is a major influence in contemporary philosophy, religion, and literature. He regarded Either/Or as the beginning of his authorship, although he had published two earlier works on Hans Christian Andersen and irony. The pseudonymous volumes of Either/Or are the writings of a young man (I) and of Judge William (II). The ironical young man's papers include a collection of sardonic aphorisms; essays on Mozart, modern drama, and boredom; and "The Seducer's Diary." The seeming miscellany is a reflective presentation of aspects of the "either," the esthetic view of life.

Part II is an older friend's "or," the ethical life of integrated, authentic personhood, elaborated in discussions of personal becoming and of marriage. The resolution of the "either/or" is left to the reader, for there is no Part III until the appearance of Stages on Life's Way. The poetic-reflective creations of a master stylist and imaginative impersonator, the two men write in distinctive ways appropriate to their respective positions.

✦ Table of Contents

CONTENTS
HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION
Either/Or, Part I
PREFACE
DIAPSALMATA
THE IMMEDIATE EROTIC STAGES OR THE MUSICAL-EROTIC
THE TRAGIC IN ANCIENT DRAMA REFLECTED IN THE TRAGIC IN MODERN DRAMA
SILHOUETTES
THE UNHAPPIEST ONE
THE FIRST LOVE
ROTATION OF CROPS
THE SEDUCER'S DIARY
SUPPLEMENT
EDITORIAL APPENDIX
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
INDEX