Irony as Philosophical Method
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Only a Joke Can Save Us: A Theory of Comedy · Todd McGowan · p.114
Philosophy and the Finite > Trying to Laugh at Existentialism
Theoretical move: Comedy requires the intersection of finitude and transcendence: Kierkegaard and Nietzsche are comic philosophers because they retain a form of transcendence (God/Übermensch) alongside their critique of finitude, while Sartre and Camus, by confining the subject entirely to finitude and rejecting any avenue toward the infinite, structurally preclude comedy from their philosophies.
When Socrates adopts an ironic attitude, he takes up the perspective of the infinite in order to confront the finitude of the sophists.