The Concept of Irony with Continual Reference to Socrates together with Notes of Schelling’s Berlin Lectures

by Soren Kierkegaard

Publisher:

Princeton University Press

, 1989

Overview

A work that “not only treats of irony but is irony,” wrote a contemporary reviewer of The Concept of Irony, with Continual Reference to Socrates. Presented here with Kierkegaard’s notes of the celebrated Berlin lectures on “positive philosophy” by F. W. J. Schelling, the book is a seedbed of Kierkegaard’s subsequent work, both stylistically and thematically. Part One concentrates on Socrates, the master ironist, as interpreted by Xenophon, Plato, and Aristophanes, with a word on Hegel and Hegelian categories. Part Two is a more synoptic discussion of the concept of irony in Kierkegaard’s categories, with examples from other philosophers and with particular attention given to A. W. Schlegel’s novel Lucinde as an epitome of romantic irony. The Concept of Irony and the Notes of Schelling’s Berlin Lectures belong to the momentous year 1841, which included not only the completion of Kierkegaard’s university work and his sojourn in Berlin, but also the end of his engagement to Regine Olsen and the initial writing of Either/Or.

Product Details

• Title: The Concept of Irony with Continual Reference to Socrates together with Notes of Schelling’s Berlin Lectures
• Author: Soren Kierkegaard
• Series: Kierkegaard’s Writings
• Volume: II
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Print Publication Date: 1989
• Logos Release Date: 2018
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Irony; Socrates; Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von, 1775-1854
• ISBNs: 9781400846924, 0691020728, 9780691020723, 9780691073545, 0691073546, 1400846927
• Resource ID: LLS:KKGWRTGS02
• Resource Type: text.monograph.lecture
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-04T23:01:39Z

About Soren Kierkegaard

Søren Aabye Kierkegaard (5 May 1813 – 11 November 1855) was a Danish Christian philosopher, theologian and religious author. He was a critic of idealist intellectuals and philosophers of his time, such as Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling and Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel; he was also critical of the state and practice of Christianity in his lifetime, primarily that of The Church of Denmark. He is widely considered to be the first existentialist.