vol. 30 núm. 101 (2009)

This text is an approach to the aesthetic stage in life in relationship with the differences established between the aesthetical seducer and the unhappy lover from Søren Kierkegaard on. In the introduction, we will present Kierkegaard in the intelectual context of the Denmark of the thinker and with the use of some biographical data and the referenceto the stages of life. Later, we will raise three issues: the description of the aesthetic stage of life in relationship with the election, the aesthetic seduction as a fantasy as seen from the seducer and love as melancholy as seen from the unhappy lover.