@inbook{e2796e8e481144c49224194b857b7388,
title = "Hegel{\textquoteright}s Historical Methodology in The Concept of Irony",
abstract = "Kierkegaard's remarks in the Introduction to The Concept of Irony have proven to be difficult to understand. There he gives a somewhat odd general methodological consideration of the relation between philosophy and history in order to explain his own procedure in exploring irony in different historical contexts. This paper claims that his elusive comments here make sense when read against the background of Hegel's famous introduction to the Lectures on the Philosophy of History. While Kierkegaard is known for his passionate criticism of the abstraction of speculative philosophy, here, by contrast, he seems to affirm his appreciation for speculative philosophy's ability to avoid abstraction and capture the truth of actuality. Thus, in his methodological considerations at the outset of the work, he seems to say that he will attempt a kind of Hegelian philosophy of history as he traces the historical mutations of the concept of irony.",
author = "Stewart, {Jon Bartley}",
year = "2011",
month = nov,
day = "16",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-3-11-023650-7",
volume = "2011",
series = "Kierkegaard Studies Yearbook",
publisher = "De Gruyter",
pages = "81--100",
editor = "Heiko Schulz and Jon Steward",
booktitle = "Kierkegaard Studies",
address = "Germany",
}