The Concept of Irony (A Midland book)
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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 Kierkegaards notes of the celebrated Berlin lectures on "positive philosophy" by F.W.J. Schelling the book is a seedbed of Kierkegaards 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 Kierkegaards categories with examples from other philosophers and with particular attention given to A. W. Schlegels novel "Lucinde" as an epitome of romantic irony."The Concept of Irony" and the "Notes of Schellings Berlin Lectures" belong to the momentous year 1841 which included not only the completion of Kierkegaards university work and his sojourn in Berlin but also the end of his engagement to Regine Olsen and the initial writing of "Either/Or."
