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1 Vergote, Henri-Bernard, « Lire Kierkegaard » in Obliques, Editions Borderie,1981, p.14.
2 Titre de l’ouvrage de Pierre Mesnard, Le vrai visage de Kierkegaard, Éditions Beauchesne, Paris 1948.
3 Chestov, Leon, Kierkegaard et la philosophie existentielle, Éditions Vrin, Paris, 1998. P.37.
4 Kierkegaard, S., Œuvres complètes, Tome 11, Éditions de l’Orante, Paris, p. 306.