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100			_aKierkegaard, Soren
245			_aStages on life's way : studies by various persons
260			_bPrinceton University Press, _c1988 _aPrinceton :
300			_axviii, 780 p. ; _c21 cm.
365			_b60.00 _c$ _d86.80
490			_aKierkegaard's writings ; _vXI
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aStages 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 "Judge William" in praise of marriage "in answer to objections." The remainder of the volume, almost two-thirds of the whole, is the diary of a young man, discovered by "Frater Taciturnus," who was deeply in love but felt compelled to break his engagement. The work closes with a letter to the reader from Taciturnus on the three "existence-spheres" represented by the three parts of the book. Stages on Life's Way not only repeats themes, characters, and pseudonymous authors of the earlier works but also goes beyond them and points to further development of central ideas in Concluding Unscientific Postscript (from publisher's description, on back cover).
650			_aPhilosophy
650			_aReligion and Spirituality
700			_aHong, Howard V. _eed.
700			_aHong, Edna H. _eed.
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