If Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard were alive today, and had his own social media account, he probably wouldn’t get many likes. The eccentric writer of books including Fear and Trembling and The Sickness Unto Death, was often insulted and ridiculed by those who knew him, and almost nobody read his books in his day. Kierkegaard never got married or had children, he hardly ever travelled, and he had contempt for politics. Instead, he explored the human condition of suffering and despair, w...
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