"According to Kierkegaard, there are three stages or 'spheres' of existence: the aesthetic, the ethical and the religious. In The Seducer’s Diary, the author depicts the life of someone who has made a conscious choice for the aesthetic way of life, with all the consequences that implies. I was torn between joy — that this amazing text-within-a-text is in print and available to an English-language audience — and concern, that it is taken out of the context of its intellectual home, the monumental philosophical work Either/Or. Be that as it may, The Seducer’s Diary alone is an entrancing read. The layers of metafiction and seduction are dizzying, the tone and pace wonderfully genteel, and filled with visionary metaphors, which only adds to its beauty, but with a hard and frightening core that has given me an almost ominous pause. The plot is simple, and the book is very short, but all the same I became easily involved with the characters. ..."
Tongue Sophistries
New Yorker: Søren K.’s Two-Hundredth Birthday
The Seducer’s Diary
Princeton University Press: The Seducer's Diary
2011 July: Søren Kierkegaard, 2013 April: Repetition (1843), 2013 December: The Quotable Kierkegaard, 2014 October: Fear and Trembling - Søren Kierkegaard (1843), 2014 December: The Dark Knight of Faith - Existential Comics, 2015 July: I still love Kierkegaard, 2015 October: The Concept of Anxiety (1844), 2016 October: Cruel intentions, 2017 July: Søren Kierkegaard Newsletter, 2018 January: Either/Or (1843)
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