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Ep. 329: Kierkegaard on Irony (Part One)
Published 2 years, 5 months ago
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Discussing On the Concept of Irony (1841).
Kierkegaard builds up to telling us what irony is by showing how Socrates invented irony, as characterized by his wholly negative project of showing others that their beliefs inherited from society are wrong.
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