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Philosophical Fragments

This volume contains a new translation, with a historical introduction by the translators, of two works written under the pseudonym Johannes Climacus. This book varies in tone and substance from the other works so attributed, but it is dialectically related to them, as well as to the other pseudonymous writings.

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This translation of Kierkegaard's deals with the nature of doubt and faith in the realm of his existential philosophy.

Subject
philosophy
Audience
adult
Length
long · 400 pages

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