The Concept of Irony, with Continual Reference to Socrates/Notes of Schelling's Berlin Lectures

by Søren Kierkegaard and Soren Kierkegaard

Book Overview

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 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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691020728
• ISBN13: 9780691020723
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 664 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 5.5" x 8.4"