Kierkegaard: The Ironical Thinker of His — and Our — Times

Abstract

This paper brings upon the works of Søren Kierkegaard in order to demonstrate hisrelevance for contemporary relations between the subject and the sociopolitical context. Irecall his Concept of Irony, in which he brings the Socratic irony as a concept, which willbe used as an method whereof depart all his later books and articles. One can say thatKierkegaard’s whole life was a Socratic, ironical mission. From that point of view, wemay appropriate from his work the desire to construct a whole new subjectivity, since thepsychopolitical context has brought a great challenge for autonomous thinking.