Summary
An existentialist
novel
Soeren Kierkegaard was a Danish philosopher, Christian and one of the
founders of existentialism. This novel features a seducer who strives to seize
an innocent girl.
This charmer is actually a philosophical character, an existential
metaphor embodies the aesthetic of the three stages of existence in the
philosophy of Kierkegaard. The aesthetic is a category that refers to the
individual day to day living, in the moment (the moment is not present in
Kierkegaard, it is far outside the temporality), and master of irony and
manipulation.
As Don Juan, the seducer seeks not so much physical as intellectual
domination possession.
Seduction and
Aesthetics
The seducer not only of reality, he saw potentialities, he invents his
destiny and therefore seeks to develop the full potential from being coveted,
in the manner of Pygmalion:
“There is nothing more exhilarating than possible”
Kierkegaard summarizes the project seducer as follows:
“Loving one is too little, love is all lightness of superficiality, but
know yourself and love as many as possible, locked in his soul all the powers
of love so that each of they receive the appropriate food at the same time the
consciousness encompasses all – that enjoyment, that’s life ”
This novel gives a unique and concreteness to an abstract philosophical
idea: the dissolute life of the seducer, dominated by the irony and pathos of
an endless quest.
Finally, the aesthetic life described by Kierkegaard is not related to
moral (ethical life) or religious (metaphysical stage), Kierkegaard manages to
embody this new attitude of life in this philosophical novel.
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