[KIERKEGAARD, SOREN.] Enten-Eller. Et Livs-Fragment udgivet af Victor Eremita [pseud.]. Half-titles. 2 volumes. 8vo, contemporary .5 sheep, moderate wear, spine ends restored; foxing in both volumes, worsening towards end, repaired clean tear across

[KIERKEGAARD, SOREN.] Enten-Eller. Et Livs-Fragment udgivet af Victor Eremita [pseud.]. Half-titles. 2 volumes. 8vo, contemporary .5 sheep, moderate wear, spine ends restored; foxing in both volumes, worsening towards end, repaired clean tear across Volume 1 title, repair in upper margin of last leaf in Volume 2 affecting pagination.Copenhagen, 1843 E1500-2500 FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 525 COPIES, of Kierkegaard's first major work, " . . . written in several parts, with numerous pseudonymous authors apparently responsible for the different collections of papers, letters, and diaries. It seems at first to be only a loosely structured philosophical novel. But these disparate materials define two contrasting ways of life, the 'either/or' of the title. On the one hand there is the life of the aesthetic person who is seduced by the world of the senses. And on the other hand there is the life of the ethical person who lives strictly according to an ethical code. For Kierkegaard the best way of life is neither. The 'either/or' should instead be synthesized andtranscended to a higher, religious life"- Harvard College Library, Danish Literature 78. Printing and the Mind of 214.