"""The Concept of Irony"" was a 1820s philosophical work by which Dane?"
On the Concept of Irony with Continual Reference to Socrates of Socratic irony. In the shorter Part Two of the dissertation, Kierkegaard compares Socratic irony with contemporary interpretations of irony. Here, he offers analysis of major 19th century writers and philosophers including Fichte, Schlegel, and Hegel. One English translation of the book also contains his notes on Schelling's Berlin Lectures of 1841, which Kierkegaard attended shortly after he had finished his dissertation. On the Concept of Irony with Continual Reference to Socrates On the Concept of Irony with Continual Reference to Socrates () is Søren Kierkegaard's 1841 doctoral thesis under . This thesis is the culmination of three years of
Irony well as its overall cinematic self-consciousness." Writing about performances of Shakespeare's "Othello" in apartheid South Africa, Robert Gordon suggests: "Could it be that black people in the audience ... may have viewed as a comic irony his audacity and naïvety in thinking he could pass for white." Romantic irony is "an attitude of detached scepticism adopted by an author towards his or her work, typically manifesting in literary self-consciousness and self-reflection". This conception of irony originated with the German Romantic writer and critic Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel. Joseph Dane writes "From a twentieth-century perspective, the most crucial area in the