Kierkegaard: Either/Or ONLINE Reading of Seducer's Diary (Continued)

We will be finishing the Seducer's Diary.

Online meeting link: https://meet.jit.si/KierkegaardCPM

Join us for another return to Kierkegaard's Either/Or.

In Either/Or Kierkegaard (under the pseudonym Victor Eremita) explores interiority, and the struggle for a meaningful existence wherein one finds lasting happiness. He accomplishes this by portraying two chief personalities: the Aesthete (Book I), and the Judge (Book II). The writings of the aesthete are personal and brooding. Among many aesthetic themes it examines the nature of love, happiness and how to secure these in a lasting way. The writings of the judge are addressed to the aesthete as to a friend, and attempt to convince him that he is putting himself in misery by misunderstanding the themes he has dealt with in Book I.

Books can be found in the library, or can be bought online (used copies should be easy to find).

Book 1:
EPUB: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B8BkdayihrgYWV9CWlU5eFM0cWc

Book 2:
EPUB: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B8BkdayihrgYbS1yR1p6ZUpHMlE

Amazon Links:

Book I:
http://www.amazon.com/Either-Kierkegaards-Writings-S%C3%B8ren-Kierkegaard/dp/0691020418/

Book II:
http://www.amazon.com/Either-Part-Kierkegaards-Writings-Vol/dp/0691020426/

Reading Schedule:

PART I

Week 1
Preface

Week 2
Diapsalmata

Week 3
The Immediate Erotic Stages up to "1. The Elementary Originality of the Sensuous Qualified as Seduction" (I 69)

Week 4
Finish The Immediate Erotic Stages (finish)

Week 5
The Tragic In Ancient Drama Reflected in the Tragic in Modern Drama

Week 6
Silhouettes

Week 7
The Unhappiest One

Week 8
The First Love

Week 9
Rotation of Crops

Week 10
Seducers Diary (we will live read this until it is complete)

Part II (tentative)

Week 1
The Aesthetic Validity of Marriage (first third)

Week 2
The Aesthetic Validity of Marriage (second third)

Week 3
The Aesthetic Validity of Marriage (finish)

Week 4
The Balance Between The Aesthetic and the Ethical (first fourth)

Week 5
The Balance Between The Aesthetic and the Ethical (second fourth)

Week 6
The Balance Between The Aesthetic and the Ethical (third fourth)

Week 7
The Balance Between The Aesthetic and the Ethical (fourth part)

Week 8
The Balance Between The Aesthetic and the Ethical (finish)

Week 9
Ultimatum: The Upbuilding that Lies in the Thought that in Relation to God We Are Always in the Wrong

On the Friday Meetings:
The Friday meetings started January 1st 2016 with an initial goal of reading through the first half of Kierkegaard's works. Due to continued interest we have decided to continue on beyond this point as well, and show no sign of stopping.

Works read so far in series:

• The Concept of Irony, With Continual Reference to Socrates (Kierkegaard)
• Notes of Schelling's Berlin Lectures (Kierkegaard)
• Either/Or (Victor Eremita, et al.)
• Two Upbuilding Discourses (Kierkegaard)
• Fear and Trembling (Johannes de Silentio)
• Repetition (Constantin Constantius)
• Three Upbuilding Discourses (Kierkegaard)
• Four Upbuilding Discourses (Kierkegaard)
• Two Upbuilding Discourses (Kierkegaard)
• Three Upbuilding Discourses (Kierkegaard)
• Philosophical Fragments (Johannes Climacus)
• Johannes Climacus or De Omnibus Dubitandum Est (Johannes Climacus)
• Concept of Anxiety (Vigilius Haufniensis)
• Prefaces (Nicolaus Notabene)
• Writing Sampler (A.B.C.D.E.F. Godthaab)
• Four Upbuilding Discourses (Kierkegaard)
• Three Discourses on Imagined Occasions (Kierkegaard)
• Stages on Life's Way (Hilarious Bookbinder)
• Concluding Unscientific Postscript to the Philosophical Fragments (Johannes Climacus)

Works read, but not by Kierkegaard or a pseudonym:

• The First Love (Scribe)
• The Berlin Lectures (Schelling)