"Gold Lamé ....Stages on Life’s Way"

Thanks to philosophy professor Mike Austin of Eastern Kentucky University for sending me a link to his paper "We Get to Carry Each Other: U2 and Kierkegaard on Authentic Love." "A Man and a Woman," "Staring at the Sun," and (wait for it...) "Luminous Times" all find their way into this reflection on erotic love as described in Kierkegaard's three stages of life: the aesthetic (where one might expect rock musicians to be located, but...), the ethical, and the religious. Clever little first section, too.