The Concept of Irony/Schelling Lecture Notes

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 concentrat...

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, Plato, and Aristophanes, with a word on Hegel and Hegelian categories. Part Two is a more synoptic discussion of the concept of irony in Kierkegaard's categories, with examples from other philosophers and with particular attention given to A. W. Schlegel's novel Lucinde as an epitome of romantic irony. "The Concept of Irony and the Notes of Schelling's Berlin Lectures" belong to the momentous year 1841, which included not only the completion of Kierkegaard's university work and his sojourn in Berlin, but also the end of his engagement to Regine Olsen and the initial writing of Either/Or.

作者简介：

索伦·克尔凯郭尔（Soren Aabye Kierkegaard，1813—1855）丹麦宗教哲学心理学家、诗人，现代存在主义哲学的创始人，后现代主义的先驱，也是现代人本心理学的先驱。曾就读于哥本哈根大学。后继承巨额遗产，终身隐居哥本哈根，以事著述，多以自费出版。他的思想成为存在主义的理论根据之一，一般被视为存在主义之父。反对黑格尔的泛理论，认为哲学研究的不是客观存在而是个人的“存在”，哲学的起点是个人，终点是上帝，人生的道路也就是天路历程。

译者简介：

汤晨溪，1968年生于河南济源，1989年出国留学。美国哥伦比亚大学日耳曼语言文学博士，现为美国加州大学伯克利分校的德文系教授，研究领域涉及西欧近现代文学，西欧思想史、跨学科文学研究，比较文学。