Humour and Irony in Kierkegaard's Thought
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Humour and Irony in Kierkegaard's Thought

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Humour and Irony in Kierkegaard's Thought

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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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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgements
  4. Reference Key to Kierkegaard’s Texts
  5. 1 Introduction
  6. 2 Illusion and Satire: Climacus as Satirist
  7. 3 Moral Perfectionism and Exemplars
  8. 4 Climacus as Humorist
  9. 5 The Comic and the Existence-Spheres
  10. 6 Imagination, ‘Transforming Vision’ and the Comic
  11. 7 The Legitimacy of the Comic
  12. 8 Irony and the Subjective Thinker
  13. 9 Humour, Religion and the Virtues
  14. Notes and References
  15. Bibliography
  16. Index