Diary of a Seducer

In The Seducer's Diary, Kierkegaard encourages us to reconsider the "attempt" of seduction, which is as old as human history. In connection with this, kissing, girlhood, engagement, marriage, etc. He brings ironic comments to "familiar" topics such as. According to Kierkegaard, life has three stages: Aesthetic, ethical and religious stages. In the first of these, the aesthetic stage, everything centers around pleasure. Diary of a Seducer, which forms a part of Either/Or but also has an independent integrity, is about this aesthetic stage...
Kierkegaard gets engaged to a seventeen-year-old girl named Regine Olsen, and a year later, you can find clues in the book. For some reason, he breaks off the engagement and runs away to Berlin to finish Either/Or. Although there are those who identify Kierkegaard with the "seductive" Johannes due to some basic autobiographical features, the diary is predominantly fiction. In fact, there is neither an ordinary seducer in the book nor an ordinary diary: Johannes is an extraordinary seducer who has equipped himself with a love wisdom that has ethical, aesthetic and erotic implications; an esthete, an "eroticist." He is also a freedom lover. Both he and those he seduces need to be free. As for the diary; Although some dates stand out, the thing that the reader will feel least is the diary form; What he will feel most is the taste of a tight novel adorned with ironic observations.

Classic observations of a libertarian eroticist esthete on seduction...
(From the Promotional Bulletin)



< b>Number of Pages: 160

Printing Year: 2013


Language: Turkish
< b>Publisher: Deyrinti Yayınları

First Edition Year: 2002

Number of Pages: < /strong>160