Kierkegaard and Philosophical Eros

In a bold new argument, Ulrika Carlsson grasps hold of the figure of Eros that haunts Søren Kierkegaard''s The Concept of Irony, and for the first time, uses it as key to interpret that text and his second book, Either/Or. According to Carlsson, Kierkegaard adopts Plato''s idea of Eros as the fundamental force that drives humans in all their pursuits. For him, every existential stance-every way of...