Irony, humour and the comic play vital yet under-appreciated roles in Kierkegaard's thought. Focusing upon the Concluding Unscientific Postscript, this book investigates these roles, relating irony and humour as forms of the comic to central Kierkegaardian themes. How does the comic function as a form of 'indirect communication'? What roles can irony and humour play in the infamous Kierkegaardian 'leap'? Do certain forms of wisdom depend upon possessing a sense of humour? And is such a sense of humour thus a genuine virtue?
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Humour and Irony in Kierkegaard's Thought
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Mind & Body in PhilosophyTable of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Reference Key to Kierkegaard’s Texts
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Illusion and Satire: Climacus as Satirist
- 3 Moral Perfectionism and Exemplars
- 4 Climacus as Humorist
- 5 The Comic and the Existence-Spheres
- 6 Imagination, ‘Transforming Vision’ and the Comic
- 7 The Legitimacy of the Comic
- 8 Irony and the Subjective Thinker
- 9 Humour, Religion and the Virtues
- Notes and References
- Bibliography
- Index
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