Either/Or: A Fragment of Life

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Either/Or: A Fragment of Life

work by Kierkegaard

Also known as: “Enten Eller: Et Livs Fragment”

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In Søren Kierkegaard: Stages on life’s way
…one of the essays of Either/Or, the aesthete sees boredom as the root of all evil and is preoccupied with making life interesting; and the famous seducer in the same volume seems less concerned with sex than with the fascinating spectacle of watching himself seduce his victim.
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