In Vino Veritas from Stages on Life’s Way: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

In Vino Veritas from Stages on Life’s Way, credited to Soren Kierkegaard, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

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LibriVox recording of In Vino Veritas from Stages on Life’s Way by Soren Kierkegaard. (Translated by Lee M. Hollander.) Read in English by KevinS; Craig Campbell 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)

Recording facts

• Recording title: In Vino Veritas from Stages on Life’s Way
• Author credits: Soren Kierkegaard
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 7
• Listed recording duration: 3:19:46

Catalogue topics

• philosophy
• aesthetics

Track guide

1. 01 - The Banquet — 27:32
2. 02 - The Young Person’s Speech — 51:48
3. 03 - Constantin’s Speech — 26:47
4. 04 - Victor Eremita’s Speech — 29:32
5. 05 - The Dressmaker’s Speech — 19:52
6. 06 - The Speech of John the Seducer — 27:46
7. 07 - Judge William and His Wife — 16:28

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