Kierkegaard and the Treachery of Love

by Amy Laura Hall

Book Overview

This is a major study of Kierkegaard and love. Amy Laura Hall explores Kierkegaard's description of love's treachery, difficulty, and hope, reading his Works of Love as a text that both deciphers and complicates the central books in his pseudonymous canon: Fear and Trembling, Repetition, Either/Or, and Stages on Life's Way. In all of these works, the characters are, as in real life, complex and incomplete, and the conclusions are perplexing. Hall...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521893119
• ISBN13: 9780521893114
• Release Date: August 2002
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.1"