FELIPE SA CAVALCANTE ALVES

The research at its current stage has turned to analyzing the concept of irony. To this end, we studied how irony entered the world in the person of Socrates and that its aim was, above all, to communicate nostalgia, that is, the desire, once situated in the void left by the Socratic dialog, to seek a meaning that would give life back its substance. Thus, he shows that Socrates wanted, above all, to empty the concept of love and death, so that a new meaning of love and death is sought, which is presented as love directed towards God, but also towards the other, with whom we converse. And death, in turn, reappears as a transposition from idea to reality and, in its most eminent sense, as death to a new life, in the Christian sense. These new meanings of love and death are only possible because, based on Socratic irony, Kierkegaard develops his own concept of irony, called dominated irony. Thus, in order to give substance back to these concepts, Kierkegaard must formulate a concept of dialectics based on irony, which means that the objective sought is never achieved, moving closer to the dialectics of Schleiermacher and Schlegel.