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- Title
Sokrates' Verlegenheit(en): Auf der Spur einer negativistischen Denkfigur.
- Authors
Duc, Viet Anh Nguyen
- Abstract
This article aims at conceptualising the notion of embarrassment as a negativistic figure of thought that takes the experience of one's own non-sovereignty as a starting point and emphasises an engagement with situations of not-knowing. This consideration is clarified in discussion with the figure of Socrates or with the philosophical attitude of Socrates. Because the negativistic thrust of the conceptualisation undertaken is reminiscent of irony, the paper then addresses the question of what distinguishes embarrassment understood as a figure of thought from irony. For this purpose, Kierkegaard's reading of Socratic irony is drawn upon. It is shown that irony is inherently a negativism, which in the last consequence aims at a retention of rights; but this is exactly what embarrassment avoids, because, as the article shows, it is not a negativism of strength, but of weakness.
- Subjects
SOCRATES, ca. 469-399 B.C.; KIERKEGAARD, Soren, 1813-1855; NEGATIVISM; EMBARRASSMENT; THRUST; IRONY
- Publication
Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie, 2023, Vol 71, Issue 1, p107
- ISSN
0012-1045
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/dzph-2023-0007