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405 Kierkegaard Falls in Love

The History of Literature

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Kirkegarde and Socrates

Kirker garde's first major work was his dissertation called the conception of irony with constant reference to socrates. Kirkegard assessed socrates as both a model life, but also as an intellectual tool. Nitha couldn't get over the idea that socrates never got drunk. He took the dionysian spirit and crushed it with a layer of apollonian thought.

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