Starting from Flusser’s most explicit statements about irony, self-irony, and the Devil, I try to make some sense of relations, in thought, between language, reality scepticism. And, perhaps importantly, clarify notion role philosophy proper. This analysis will bring us a puzzling spectrum see hovering over ideas: eradication boundaries ontological ethical. That is what call radical immanent mo...

We explored the differential impact of auditory information and written contextual information on the recognition of verbal irony in spontaneous speech. Based on relevance theory, we predicted that speakers would provide acoustic disambiguation cues when speaking in situations that lack other sources of information, such as a visual channel. We further predicted that listeners would use this in...

Recent authors have suggested that Kierkegaard’s pseudonymous writings are fundamentally ironical, and that it is mistaken to see them as containing philosophical and theological claims. Rather, the point of these writings is to show that the really important theological and philosophical truths cannot be expressed. I argue that such interpreters are correct to see pervasive irony in Kierkegaar...