Kierkegaard on irony (”On the Concept of Irony, with Constant Reference to Socrates”)
Socratic irony (Columbo as example!)
self-defeating?
historical irony—a type of dramatic irony. the irony witnessed by current figures watching/reading/hearing (about) past events/people.
“…irony [is] the infinite absolute negativity. It is negativity, because it only negates; it is infinite, because it does not negate this or that phenomenon; it is absolute, because that by virtue of which it negates is a higher something that still is not. The irony established nothing, because that which is to be established lies behind it…. Irony is a qualification of subjectivity. In irony, the subject is negatively free, since the actuality that is supposed to give the subject content is not there. He is free from the constraint in which the given actuality holds the subject, but he is negatively free and as such is suspended, because there is nothing that holds him. But this very freedom, this suspension, gives the ironist a certain enthusiasm, because he becomes intoxicated, so to speak, in the infinity of possibilities….” Soren Kierkegaard, The Concept of Irony With Continual Reference to Socrates (doctoral dissertation), 1841