Kierkegaard and the legitimacy of the comic: understanding the relevance of irony, humor, and the comic for ethics and religion

Kierkegaard makes a controversial and little-understood claim: irony, humour, and the comic are essential to ethics and religion.

This account, grounded in concluding unscientific postscript, explicates that idea for a philosophical and theological audience with a level of conceptual analysis never seen before in Kierkegaard scholarship.