Either/Or, Part I

by Soren Kierkegaard

Publisher:

Princeton University Press

, 1987

Overview

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.

Contents

Top Highlights

“Old Testament and to Shakespeare. There one still feels that those who speak are human beings” (Page 28)

“They never use the freedoms they have but demand those they do not have” (Page 19)

“true eternity does not lie behind either/or but before it” (Page 39)

Product Details

• Title: Either/Or, Part I
• Author: Soren Kierkegaard
• Series: Kierkegaard’s Writings
• Volume: I
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Print Publication Date: 1987
• Logos Release Date: 2018
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Religion › Philosophy
• ISBNs: 9781400846931, 0691020418, 9780691073156, 9780691020419, 0691073155, 1400846935
• Resource ID: LLS:KKGWRTGS03
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-04T23:03:44Z

About Soren Kierkegaard

Søren Aabye Kierkegaard (5 May 1813 – 11 November 1855) was a Danish Christian philosopher, theologian and religious author. He was a critic of idealist intellectuals and philosophers of his time, such as Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling and Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel; he was also critical of the state and practice of Christianity in his lifetime, primarily that of The Church of Denmark. He is widely considered to be the first existentialist.