Saturday, September 10, 2016

On the Concept of Irony with Continual Reference to Socrates (Søren Kierkegaard, 1841)

On the Concept of Irony with Continual Reference to Socrates is Soren Kierkegaard's 1841 doctoral thesis under Frederik Christian Sibbern.

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. (wikipedia)  (accessible via scribd)