The thinker Søren Kierkegaard is thought of as the founding father of Existentialism and a forerunner of postmodernism. Philosophy, in Kierkegaard's radical view, was once of no need until it completely replaced people's lives. This picture consultant introduces this advanced and tough determine in a witty, available, and shrewdpermanent way.
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