A Case for Irony /

A Case for Irony / / Jonathan Lear.

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In 2001, Vanity Fair declared that the Age of Irony was over. Joan Didion has lamented that the United States in the era of Barack Obama has become an ";irony-free zone."; Jonathan Lear in his 2006 book Radical Hope looked into America's heart to ask how might we dispose ourselves if...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK GESAMTPAKET / COMPLETE PACKAGE 2011
VerfasserIn:
Lear, Jonathan,
MitwirkendeR:
Diamond, Cora,
Korsgaard, Christine M.,
Moran, Richard,
Paul, Robert A.,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2011]
©2014
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
Series:Tanner lectures on human values
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Physical Description:1 online resource (224 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • I. The Lectures
  • 1. To Become Human Does Not Come That Easily
  • 2. Ironic Soul
  • II. Commentary
  • 3. Self-Constitution and Irony
  • 4. Irony, Reflection, and Psychic Unity
  • 5. Psychoanalysis and the Limits of Reflection
  • 6. The Immanence of Irony and the Efficacy of Fantasy
  • 7. Thoughts about Irony and Identity
  • 8. Flight from Irony
  • 9. On the Observing Ego and the Experiencing Ego
  • 10. Observing Ego and Social Voice
  • Notes
  • Commentators
  • Index

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