Irony and the Logic of Modernity
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Paradigms
ISBN-10
3110302209
ISBN-13
9783110302202
Publisher
De Gruyter
Imprint
De Gruyter
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 28th, 2015
Print length
236 Pages
Weight
462 grams
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Examining how thinkers identify the political contradictions of the 20th century as ironical, this book offers an account of the constitutive irony of modernity's ethical, poetical, and political logic.
The logic of modernity is an ironical logic. Modern irony, a flash of genius produced by Romantic theorists, is first discussed, e.g. in Hegel and Kierkegaard, as an ethical problem personified in figures such as the aesthete, the seducer, the flaneur, or the dandy. It fully develops in the novel, the modern genre par excellence: in novels of the early 19th century no less than in those of postmodernity or in those of the masters of citation, parody, and pastiche of classical modernism (Musil, Joyce, and Proust). This book, however, goes one step further. Looking at how such different authors as Schmitt, Kafka, and Rorty identify the political conflicts, contradictions, and paradoxes of the 20th century as ironical and offers a comprehensive account of the constitutive irony of modernity''s ethical, poetical, and political logic.
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