Søren Kierkegaard: La ironía y las obras de 1843

Abstract

From Kierkegaard's dissertation, On the concept of irony with continual reference to Socrates (1841), the author tries out a revindication of this text not as a less important youth work but as a mature work. In this paper, firstly, Kierkegaard's thought is characterized along with its main topics from a biographical and autobiographical perspective of Kierkegaard, who, as the author claims, should be defined as a writer who, employing philosophical terminology and inside a christian enviroment, pursues truth in searching for his own identity with a particular focus on the problem of liberty that develops itself in the existence. In second place, here it is tried to demonstrate that the elemental concepts of the Kierkegaardian philosophy, as subjectivity and existence, are already developed in the 1841 dissertation. And, in the third place, here it is pretended to show that other central concepts of the Kierkegaardian philosophy, if not developed in the dissertation, are already profiled and prefigured.