Socrates and Kirkagard

Kirkegard has different tools. He has poetry, but above all, he has prose,. The prose of his journals, the prose of novels, thee niques of fiction, which he sets into essays and philosophical works. And where socrates hides behind plato's authorship and his own questions, kirkegart hides behind pseudonyms. Vigilius hopniensiswich means the watchman of copenhagen. Johannes de silentio, anti and anticlimacus, hilarious bookbinder. Everyone in copenhagen knew that soran was the author of his works. So why do it? Why give you all why why write with all these pseudonyms? Because it gives

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