
Stages on Life's Way
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 ...
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 ...