L’ironia come prassi decostruttiva in Søren Kierkegaard

The following article tries to show how the question of irony, as it has been formulated by Søren Kierkegaard in his famous work The concept of irony, can provide numerous causes for reflection, as well as echoes and suggestions of a proper modern decostructive praxis. On the one hand, irony is a dangerous way of relativisation and dissolution of any assumed truth, revealed as pure vanity, on the other hand – as it is the «counterfeit money» of the communication – irony consists of a praxis that resists to the monologue of the speculative synthesis, that is intrinsically dialogic. The irony «invents» the experience of the «other», inasmuch it is a messianic opening-up and it calls for a decision and singular responsibility.