Either/or: A Fragment of Life
Author: Søren Kierkegaard
What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?’, , Either/Or is the earliest of the major works of Søren Kierkegaard, one of the most startlingly original thinkers and writers of the nineteenth century, and the first which he wrote under a pseudonym, as he would for his greatest philosophical writings. Adopting the viewpoints of….Read More
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