{"product_id":"the-seducers-diary-sren-kierkegaard-9780691158419","title":"The Seducer's Diary","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"In the vast literature of love, \u003ci\u003eThe Seducer's Diary\u003c\/i\u003e is an intricate curiosity--a feverishly intellectual attempt to reconstruct an erotic failure as a pedagogic success, a wound masked as a boast,\" observes John Updike in his foreword to S ren Kierkegaard's narrative. This work, a chapter from Kierkegaard's first major volume, \u003ci\u003eEither\/Or\u003c\/i\u003e, springs from his relationship with his fianc馥, Regine Olsen. Kierkegaard fell in love with the young woman, ten years his junior, proposed to her, but then broke off their engagement a year later. This event affected Kierkegaard profoundly. Olsen became a muse for him, and a flood of volumes resulted. His attempt to set right, in writing, what he feels was a mistake in his relationship with Olsen taught him the secret of \"indirect communication.\" \u003ci\u003eThe Seducer's Diary\u003c\/i\u003e, then, becomes Kierkegaard's attempt to portray himself as a scoundrel and thus make their break easier for her. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Matters of marriage, the ethical versus the aesthetic, dread, and, increasingly, the severities of Christianity are pondered by Kierkegaard in this intense work.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sen Kierkegaard\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 069115841X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780691158419\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/28\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 232\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.38lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.42h x 4.65w x 0.66d","brand":"Sen Kierkegaard","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44045027541247,"sku":"9780691158419","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c3bb496f-80df-4da9-8ed3-24c721b27b76.jpg?v=1684976303","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-seducers-diary-sren-kierkegaard-9780691158419","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}