Om Begrebet Ironi med stadigt Hensyn til Socrates (On the Concept of Irony, with Constant References to Socrates)

Kjøbenhavn: P.G. Philipsens Forlag, 1841. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good +. The Rare First Edition, First Issue of Kierkegaard’s Second BookKIERKEGAARD, Soren. Om Begrebet Ironi med stadigt Hensyn til Socrates (On the Concept of Irony, with Constant References to Socrates), P.G. Philipsens Forlag, Kjøbenhavn, 1841. TP (with note regarding Kierkegaard's candidacy for Master of the Arts and the date above Sibbern's name on the verso of TP) + second TP in Latin (with hand written date in Roman numerals) + [i]-[ii] = Theses (in Latin) + [iii] = Indhold + half-title + [3]-350, small Octavo. First Edition, First Issue (Himmelstrup 8).The rare early issue with the second title page in Latin. "Kierkegaard's second book, his dissertation in theology, presented at the University of Copenhagen. In this work, Kierkegaard invidiously contrasts the irony of Socrates with the comparatively palliated and world-weary irony of the romantics. Irony constitutes the first in that series of multivalent, existential categories (the exception, the Extraordinary, the incommensurate, Angst, the leap, faith, the absurd, the 'offense', the moment) deployed against the Hegelian System. Indeed, irony and the figure of the ironist are central to Kierkegaard's entire 'aesthetic' corpus... Socrates was a figure to whom Kierkegaard would regularly return as an antidote to the 'speculative disease' in philosophy." (Wronoski, p. 9)CONDITION: Very good+ in contemporary boards, rebacked though not recently (most likely early 20th c.). Pages browned as usual. 

CONDITION: Very good+ in contemporary boards, rebacked though not recently (most likely early 20th c.). Pages browned as usual. PHOTOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST