Socratic Ironies: Reading Hadot, Reading Kierkegaard

This paper examines the seemingly unlikely rapport between the ‘Christian existentialist’, radically Protestant thinker, Søren Kierkegaard and French classicist and historian of philosophy, Pierre Hadot, famous for advocating a return to the ancient pagan sense of philosophy as a way of life. Despit...

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Main Author: Sharpe, Matthew 1975- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Springer Netherlands [2016]
In: Sophia
Year: 2016, Volume: 55, Issue: 3, Pages: 409-435
RelBib Classification:TB Antiquity
TJ Modern history
TK Recent history
VA Philosophy
Further subjects:B Hadot
B Socrates
B Kierkegaard
B Christianity
B Irony
B Philosophy
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