The Seducer's Diary

Søren Kierkegaard

ISBN 10: 0241752175 / ISBN 13: 9780241752173

Published by Penguin Books Ltd, GB, 2025

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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.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Seducer's Diary
• Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd, GB
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0241752175
• ISBN 13: 9780241752173
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New
• Dimensions: 11.1W x 1.5H x 18.1D centimeters 11.1 centimeters width by 1.5 centimeters height by 18.1 centimeters depth
• Weight: 150 grams

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) was one of the most passionate and imaginative of all philosophers. In pursuit of the question of existence, he broke off his engagement to Regine Olsen. Over the following decade a series of the most profound and transformative works in modern philosophy poured from him, including Fear and Trembling, The Sickness Unto Death and Either/Or, from which The Seducer’s Diary is taken.