On the Concept of Irony with Continual Reference to Socrates

On the Concept of Irony with Continual Reference to Socrates
The cover page to Søren Kierkegaard's university thesis.

On the Concept of Irony with Continual Reference to Socrates (Danish: Om Begrebet Ironi med stadigt Hensyn til Socrates) is Søren Kierkegaard's university thesis paper that he submitted in 1841. This thesis is the culmination of three years of extensive study on Socrates, as seen from the view point of Xenophon, Aristophanes, and Plato.

His thesis dealt with irony, and in particular, socratic irony. In Part One, Kierkegaard regards Aristophanes' portrayal of Socrates, in Aristophanes' The Clouds to be the most accurate representation of the man. Whereas Xenophon and Plato portrayed Socrates seriously, Kierkegaard felt that Aristophanes best understood the intricacies of socratic irony.

In the shorter Part Two of the dissertation, Kierkegaard compares Socratic irony with contemporary interpretations of irony. Here he offers analysis of major 19th century writers and philosophers including Fichte, Schlegel, and Hegel.

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1843–1846

On the Concept of Irony with Continual Reference to Socrates · Either/Or · Two Upbuilding Discourses, 1843 · Repetition · Three Upbuilding Discourses · Fear and Trembling · Four Upbuilding Discourses, 1843 · Two Upbuilding Discourses, 1844 · Three Upbuilding Discourses, 1844 · Philosophical Fragments · The Concept of Anxiety · Prefaces  · Four Upbuilding Discourses, 1844  · Three Discourses on Imagined Occasions · Stages on Life's Way · Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments · Two Ages: A Literary Review
1847–1854

Edifying Discourses in Diverse Spirits · Works of Love · Christian Discourses · The Crisis and a Crisis in the Life of an Actress  · The Lily of the Field and the Bird of the Air · The Sickness Unto Death · Three Discourses at the Communion on Fridays · Practice in Christianity · Two Discourses at the Communion on Fridays · The Book on Adler · For Self-Examination · Attack Upon Christendom
Posthumous publications
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Philosophy · Theology · Angst · Anguish · Authenticity · Double-mindedness · Indirect communication · Infinite qualitative distinction · Knight of faith · Leap of faith · Ressentiment · Rotation method
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