A case for irony

A case for irony / Jonathan Lear ; with commentary by Cora Diamond [and others].

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 we...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lear, Jonathan
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2011.
Series:Tanner lectures on human values (Cambridge, Mass.)
Subjects:
Irony.
irony.
PHILOSOPHY > Movements > Humanism.
PHILOSOPHY > History & Surveys > Modern.
Irony
Online Access:Click for online access
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • 1. To Become Human Does Not Come That Easily
  • 2. Ironic Soul
  • 3. Self-Constitution and Irony / Korsgaard, Christine M.
  • 4. Irony, Reflection, and Psychic Unity
  • 5. Psychoanalysis and the Limits of Reflection / Moran, Richard
  • 6. The Immanence of Irony and the Efficacy of Fantasy
  • 7. Thoughts about Irony and Identity / Diamond, Cora
  • 8. Flight from Irony
  • 9. On the Observing Ego and the Experiencing Ego / Paul, Robert A.
  • 10. Observing Ego and Social Voice
  • Notes
  • Commentators
  • Index.

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