A Matter of Fact
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Aesthetics
Ambiguity
Aphorism
Aunt
Author_Soren Kierkegaard
Boredom
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Confidant
Consciousness
Consonant
Croesus
Determination
Don Giovanni
Dowry
Drawing room
Eloquence
Emmeline
Epaminondas
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Eroticism
Eternal oblivion
Explanation
Faithfulness
Faust
G. (novel)
God Knows (novel)
Greatness
Greek tragedy
Handkerchief
Homesickness
Humiliation
I Wish (manhwa)
Indiana University Press
Infatuation
Irony
Laughter
Literature
Meal
Mephistopheles
Monologue
Narrative
Parody
Philosopher
Philosophy
Pity
Poetry
Princeton University Press
Publication
Quantity
Sadness
Salutation
Science of Logic
Secrecy (book)
Sentimentality
Soren Kierkegaard
Spontaneous generation
Stupidity
Subjectivity
Suffering
Superficiality
Superiority (short story)
Sympathy
The Erotic
The Other Hand
The Various
Thought
Tragedy
Tragic hero
Treatise
V.
Virginity
Writing
Product details
- ISBN 9780691020419
- Weight: 794g
- Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 21 Jan 1988
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Soren 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.
