A question of style: Hegel and Kierkegaard on language, communication, and the ethics of authorship.(G.W.F. Hegel, Soren Kierkegaard )(Critical essay)

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"To be honest, I rarely understood [Hegel].... I believe he really did not want to be understood." (1)

"I give you advance notice that there will come moments ... when I ... must set between ourselves the awakening of misunderstanding." (2)

What the Greek comic playwright Aristophanes did for Socrates, the Danish Christian humorist (as he often called himself) Soren Kierkegaard did for G. W. F. Hegel. With delectably malicious wit, these master tormentors reduced their famous elders to the status of half-dangerous, half-ridiculous characters in a tragicomedy. Socrates, ...

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