Kierkegaard, Marx, and Nietzsche are for us like guideposts to a past …

Hannah Arendt
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Kierkegaard, Marx, and Nietzsche are for us like guideposts to a past which has lost its significance. ✨ Hannah Arendt (1968). Between past and future: eight exercises in political thought, Viking Adult
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Kierkegaard, Marx, and Nietzsche are for us like guideposts to a past which has lost its significance. ✨ Hannah Arendt (1968). Between past and future: eight exercises in political thought, Viking Adult

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