Kierkegaard, Søren – The Bell Bookshop https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk Henley-on-Thames Mon, 02 Mar 2026 18:01:50 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cropped-Bell-Background-Blue-32x32.png Kierkegaard, Søren – The Bell Bookshop https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk 32 32 The seducer’s diary https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/the-seducers-diary/ Thu, 17 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/?post_type=product&p=47805 90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books

‘What does love fear? Limitation.’

Johannes stealthily pursues Cordelia through the streets of Copenhagen, and through an intricate, manipulative courtship contrives to possess her. Motivated not by love or sex but by sensation and experiment, he seeks to make the object of his desire desire him – and then to retreat. At once a captivating story and philosophical exploration of existence’s entanglements, The Seducer’s Diary is also an excoriating reconstruction of Kierkegaard’s own romantic failures.

]]> Either/Or https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/either-or/ Thu, 28 May 1992 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/either-or/ In Either/Or, using the voices of two characters – the aesthetic young man of part one, called simply ‘A’, and the ethical Judge Vilhelm of the second section – Kierkegaard reflects upon the search for a meaningful existence, contemplating subjects as diverse as Mozart, drama, boredom, and, in the famous Seducer’s Diary, the cynical seduction and ultimate rejection of a young, beautiful woman. A masterpiece of duality, Either/Or is a brilliant exploration of the conflict between the aesthetic and the ethical – both meditating ironically and seductively upon Epicurean pleasures, and eloquently expounding the noble virtues of a morally upstanding life.

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