Kierkegaards Writings, II, Volume 2: The Concept of Irony, with Continual Reference to Socrates/Notes of Schellings Berlin Lectures Kierkegaard Soren

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. Schelling, the book is a seedbed of Kierkegaard's subsequent work, both stylistically and thematically. Presented here with Kierkegaard's notes of the celebrated Berlin lectures on "positive philosophy" by F.W.J.

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. Part One concentrates on Socrates, the master ironist, as interpreted by Xenophon, Plato, and Aristophanes, with a word on Hegel and Hegelian categories. 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