Ulrika Carlsson is Assistant Professor in the School of Philosophy at the National Research University Higher School of Economics in Moscow, Russia.
Based on a careful and comprehensive reading of Soren Kierkegaard's The Concept of Irony, Ulrika Carlsson debunks the schematism of the so-called theory of the stages and clears the ground for an eye-opening reassessment of aesthetic life according to Kierkegaard. * Isak Winkel Holm, Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Copenhagen, Denmark * Equally at home in Kierkegaard's Danish texts and in the ancient Greek philosophical sources that were his primary inspiration, Ulrika Carlsson provides an insightful reading of Kierkegaard's early works that is both iconoclastic and compelling. Her book sheds light not only on this existential thinker, but also on love. * Rick Anthony Furtak, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Colorado College, USA *