The diarist in Stages on Life’s Way Kevin Hoffman

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hoffman, Kevin, 1971- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kierkegaard, Søren, 1813-1855. Stadier paa livets vej.

Kierkegaard, Søren.

Existentialism.

existentialism.

Medical Subjects:

Existentialism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2026

Summary:

"Kierkegaard's Stages on Life's Way belongs to what by 1845 can be understood as the romantic tradition, itself containing members related by both blood and adoption to those in the Christian tradition. By far the greatest portion of this Element is devoted to the portrait of an ethically enervated, anonymous troubadour turned troglodyte whose peculiar diary is accidentally found locked in a box with the key inside at the bottom of a pond. To bring up and out what animates this central character, the initial portions of stages on the despairing ambivalence of a group of tipsy bachelors and the pedantic moralizing of an anonymous husband unfold the interpersonal ideals at play in pursuit of a meaningful life all told. Following suit, the diary recounts a troubled love affair, which is, as Kierkegaard says elsewhere, 'always a usable theme in relation to what it means to exist'"-- Cambridge Core

Contents:

The aesthetic background

In vino veritas

A bourgeois-romantic synthesis

The irregular declension

The presentiment of a life-view not given in poetry

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references

Online resource; title from PDF title page (Cambridge Core, viewed July 24, 2026)

Other Format:

Print version Hoffman, Kevin, 1971- Diarist in Stages on Life’s Way

ISBN:

9781009557528

1009557521

OCLC:

1599721328

Access Restriction:

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