Concept
Irony
Overview
rhetorical device, literary technique, or situation in which there is an incongruity between the literal and the implied meaning
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Philosophers who discussed Irony
Related ideas
- Aristophanes
- Foundationalism
- Johann Gottlieb Fichte
- Gustave Flaubert
- Frederick C. Beiser
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Immanuel Kant
- Louvre
- German Romanticism
- Hyperbole
- Metaphysics
- Friedrich Schlegel
- Richard Rorty
- Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
- Categorical imperative
- Plato
- Postmodernism
- Renaissance
- Socrates
- Søren Kierkegaard
- Metanarrative
- Authenticity (philosophy)
- New Criticism
- Thomas Hardy
Opposing perspectives
Place in the tradition
Part of Absurdism.