Concept of Irony With Continual Reference to Socrates Together With Notes of Schellings Berlin Lectures

A work that "not only treats of irony but is irony," wrote a contemporary reviewer ofThe 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 novelLucindeas an epitome of romantic irony. The Concept of Ironyand theNotes of Schelling's Berlin Lecturesbelong 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 ofEither/Or.Kierkegaard, Soren is the author of 'Concept of Irony With Continual Reference to Socrates Together With Notes of Schellings Berlin Lectures', published 1992 under ISBN 9780691020723 and ISBN 0691020728.