In Vino Veritas, from Stages on Life’s Way

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

In Category - Literary Fiction, Psychology

Authors: Soren Kierkegaard In Year : 1923

Book Language: English

Audiobook: In Vino Veritas, from Stages on Life’s Way

The Banquet
The Young Person’s Speech
Constantin’s Speech
Victor Eremita’s Speech
The Dressmaker’s Speech
The Speech of John the Seducer
Judge William and His Wife

In Vino Veritas is one section of Kierkegaard's Stages on Life's Way, originally published in 1845. In a conscious reference to Plato's Symposium, it is determined that each participant must give a speech, and that their topic shall be love. Lee M. Hollander said, "it excels Plato's work in subtlety, richness, and refined humor. To be sure, Kierkegaard has charged his creation with such romantic superabundance of delicate observations and rococo ornament that the whole comes dangerously near being improbable; whereas the older work stands solidly in reality." Some of the speakers in this book are charcters from Kierkegaard's other books. Victor Eremita, Judge William, and Johannes the Seducer were all from Either/Or (1843) and Constantin and the Young Person were from Repetition (1843). (Summary by Soupy)