Kierkegaard's Writings, XI, Volume 11 : Stages on Life's Way

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Kierkegaard, Søren, 1813-1855

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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. Wi...

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 "

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