Much Ado About (Almost) Nothing: In Defense of “Magister Kierkegaard”
Kierkegaard’s account of Socratic irony in The Concept of Irony is often criticized for neglecting the “positive” articulation of “mastered” irony. Scholars regularly cite the superior authority of Johannes Climacus, who, in Concluding Unscientific Postscript, chides “Magister Kierkegaard” for this...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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De Gruyter
2015
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Kierkegaard studies. Yearbook
Year: 2015, Volume: 20, Issue: 1, Pages: 139-162 |
| IxTheo Classification: | VA Philosophy |
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| Summary: | Kierkegaard’s account of Socratic irony in The Concept of Irony is often criticized for neglecting the “positive” articulation of “mastered” irony. Scholars regularly cite the superior authority of Johannes Climacus, who, in Concluding Unscientific Postscript, chides “Magister Kierkegaard” for this precise lapse. In this essay, I develop an interpretation of Socratic irony that is faithful both to the account elaborated in The Concept of Irony and to the wider contemporaneous reception of Socratic irony. The most plausible explanation for this reception is that the irony of Socrates was exclusively negative-just as “Magister Kierkegaard” proposed in The Concept of Irony |
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| ISSN: | 1612-9792 |
| Contains: | In: Kierkegaard studies. Yearbook
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1515/kierke-2015-0108 |