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Kierkegaard: A Seducer Resorting to Irony, Comic Jest and Humor
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Tami Yaguri
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10. Dezember 2021
Abstract
While the role of the comic in Søren Kierkegaard’s thought has been thoroughly studied by diverse scholars, in this paper I will ask whether humor in Kierkegaard’s religious sphere amounts to seduction or to temptation. By “seduction” I will mean a luring that can be viewed as positive or neutral, whereas by “temptation” I mean a negative seduction that takes advantage of the tempted fool, leaving him empty-handed. Irony, comic jest and humor are existential categories in Kierkegaard’s three spheres of existence. Irony and comic jest play a seductive role and can be regarded as neutral or even positive. In the religious sphere, humor can be assessed as temptation. Kierkegaard humorously lures the one who wishes to believe. With humor, one is readying oneself for a leap of faith. The leap may fail; one can fall, crash, and be left empty-handed.
Published Online: 2021-12-10
Published in Print: 2021-10-25
© 2021 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin/Boston
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- Titelei
- Table of Contents
- An Answer to a Question that Cannot Be Answered: A Pragmatist Approach to Viktor Frankl’s and Primo Levi’s Theoretical Perspectives on Humor
- Jacques Tati and the Philosophy of the Sight Gag
- Kierkegaard: A Seducer Resorting to Irony, Comic Jest and Humor
- The Reservations of the Funny: Ethics of Studying Funny Communication
- When No Laughing Matter Is No Laughing Matter: The Challenges in Developing a Cognitive Theory of Humor
- Internet Memes, Memory, and Orders of Repackaging
- Discussion: Article for Further Debate
- A Wise Person Proportions Their Beliefs with Humor
- Mutual Vulnerability
- Proportion and the Personality of Humor
- The Laughing Philosopher: The Affectionate Laughter of Agnes Heller
- Philosophical Satire and Criticism
- Bestiarium Academicum
- Humor in Philosophy Education
- Free-Range Philosophy: Modes of Philosophical Analysis across the Discipline … and across the Road
- Symposium, edited by Lauren Olin Steven Gimbel, Isn’t That Clever: A Philosophical Account of Humor and Comedy. Routledge 2017. Critics
- Killing It
- Seismology of Gimbel’s Isn’t That Clever: Finding Its Faults
- (Morally) Risky Business
- A Clever Errand
- Author’s Response
- Isn’t That Response Clever? A Reply to Critics
- Symposium, edited by Lauren Olin Lydia Amir, Philosophy, Humor, and the Human Condition. Taking Ridicule Seriously. Palgrave Macmillan 2019. Critics
- Taking Lydia Seriously
- Reason, Desire and the Ridiculous
- The Philosophy of Homo risibilis
- Homo risibilis: The Incongruous Perspective of Reason
- Author’s Response
- Forget Humor! Embraced Ridicule as Self-transcendence
- Book Reviews
- Call for Papers, Book Reviews, Guidelines
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Titelei
- Table of Contents
- An Answer to a Question that Cannot Be Answered: A Pragmatist Approach to Viktor Frankl’s and Primo Levi’s Theoretical Perspectives on Humor
- Jacques Tati and the Philosophy of the Sight Gag
- Kierkegaard: A Seducer Resorting to Irony, Comic Jest and Humor
- The Reservations of the Funny: Ethics of Studying Funny Communication
- When No Laughing Matter Is No Laughing Matter: The Challenges in Developing a Cognitive Theory of Humor
- Internet Memes, Memory, and Orders of Repackaging
- Discussion: Article for Further Debate
- A Wise Person Proportions Their Beliefs with Humor
- Mutual Vulnerability
- Proportion and the Personality of Humor
- The Laughing Philosopher: The Affectionate Laughter of Agnes Heller
- Philosophical Satire and Criticism
- Bestiarium Academicum
- Humor in Philosophy Education
- Free-Range Philosophy: Modes of Philosophical Analysis across the Discipline … and across the Road
- Symposium, edited by Lauren Olin Steven Gimbel, Isn’t That Clever: A Philosophical Account of Humor and Comedy. Routledge 2017. Critics
- Killing It
- Seismology of Gimbel’s Isn’t That Clever: Finding Its Faults
- (Morally) Risky Business
- A Clever Errand
- Author’s Response
- Isn’t That Response Clever? A Reply to Critics
- Symposium, edited by Lauren Olin Lydia Amir, Philosophy, Humor, and the Human Condition. Taking Ridicule Seriously. Palgrave Macmillan 2019. Critics
- Taking Lydia Seriously
- Reason, Desire and the Ridiculous
- The Philosophy of Homo risibilis
- Homo risibilis: The Incongruous Perspective of Reason
- Author’s Response
- Forget Humor! Embraced Ridicule as Self-transcendence
- Book Reviews
- Call for Papers, Book Reviews, Guidelines
