ABSTRACT
The brief collection of Roy Martinez's essays on Kierkegaard is organized and arranged by Martinez himself. All of the essays are meant to focus on interpretations of Kierkegaard's works using irony. Irony is understood in the Introduction as distinct from the irony of the Romantics. The pseudonyms are the locus of irony and engagement, and Martinez massages from them an understanding of the various ways irony is at play on a literary level. This understanding of irony allows space for a nuanced understanding of Kierkegaard's relationship to radical hermeneutics and the way in which Kierkegaard's pseudonyms relate to a deconstructive project. In Kierkegaard's authorship writing in pseudonyms is necessary to be in an ironic engagement. With a particular type of irony the pseudonyms present with a way of philosophizing that Martinez, like many commentators before him, sees as unique to Kierkegaard, which makes him malleable to other later thinkers.
