Kierkegaard and the Treachery of Love

This is a major study of Kierkegaard and love. Amy Laura Hall explores Kierkegaard''s description of love''s treachery, difficulty, and hope, reading his Works of Love as a text that both deciphers and complicates the central books in his pseudonymous canon: Fear and Trembling, Repetition, Either/Or, and Stages on Life''s Way. In all of these works, the characters are, as in real life, complex and...