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You're listening to the partially examined life a podcast by some guys who at one point

set on doing philosophy for a living but then thought better of it.

Our question for episode 329 is what is irony and we read big chunks of Sin Kirkgaard's master's thesis on the concept of irony from 1841.

For more information about this book and the podcast please see partial examine life.com. My name is Mark Linton Meyer, permitting the established to remain, but with no validity in Madison, Wisconsin.

This is Seth Paskin in Austin, Texas, beginning with the presupposition that I know nothing at all, which in turn leads to the presupposition that human that

human beings know nothing at all.

This is Dylan Casey learning how to actualize actuality

in Madison, Wisconsin.

The full title of this book, The Concept of Irony, with continual reference to Socrates.

And the whole first half of the book is about Socrates.

So originally, we don't need to read secondary literature. Let's just jump to the second half where he actually says what irony is.

But the second half, though he does, you know, say some things directly about irony, is also a bunch of secondary literature who's talking about the

romantics including shlegel that we have read recently but not a thing you know

that is shalegal's famous novel that we did not read and some other folks that we didn't even

know who they are. So we were sort of just picking and choosing. So it's big chunks of

part two, but then thanks to Seth accidentally reading part one, we just all read some of that as well and

what he had to say about Socrates was pretty cool because it's sort of there are lots of

uses of irony he wants to talk about the historical progression of irony he's very much reacting in the wake of Hegel here in Hegel's philosophy of history and the history of philosophy and so talking about not just here's just the definition of irony, it's here's how irony has been used and he thinks Socrates is a

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