Stages on Life's Way: Studies by Various Persons

by Søren Kierkegaard

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691020493
• ISBN13: 9780691020495
• Release Date: November 1988
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 808 Pages
• Weight: 2.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.3" x 5.5" x 8.4"