Kierkegaard and the Treachery of Love

This is a major study of Kierkegaard and love. Amy Laura Hall explores Kierkegaard''s description of love''s treachery difficulty and hope reading his Works of Love as a text that both deciphers and complicates the central books in his pseudonymous canon: Fear and Trembling Repetition Either/Or and Stages on Life''s Way. In all of these works the characters are as in real life complex and incomplete and the conclusions are perplexing. Hall argues that a spiritual void brings each text into being and her interpretation is as much about faith as about love. In a style that is both scholarly and lyrical she intimates answers to some of the puzzles making a poetic contribution to ethics and the philosophy of religion.