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Friedrich Nietzsche's And Soren Kier

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My enquiry involves a combined reading of Friedrich Nietzsche's and Soren Kierkegaard's work. In order to do so, I shall employ the work of American philosopher and psychoanalyst Jonathan Lear, with particular - but not exclusive - respect to his recent book 'A case for irony'. There, Lear gives an interpretation of Socratic irony as the practice of disrupting one's own conviction of having fully realized her own humanity - where according to Lear to fully be human beings is an achievement, and not something we obtain just by being born human. Lear's reading of Socrates' figure and his practice of irony draws on his interpretation of Kierkegaard's thought, as someone who also understood Socrates this way and furthered his task in his own way.
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