Irony on Occasion : From Schlegel and Kierkegaard to Derrida and de Man.
Title:
Irony on Occasion : From Schlegel and Kierkegaard to Derrida and de Man.
Author:
Newmark, Kevin.
ISBN:
9780823249398
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (382 pages)
Contents:
Introduction: -- Romantic Irony -- Friedrich Schlegel and the Myth of Irony -- Taking Kierkegaard Apart: The Concept of Irony -- Modernity Interrupted: Kierkegaard's Antigone -- Reading Kierkegaard: To Keep Intact the Secret -- "Who Is Able to Understand Abraham?" -- Postromantic Irony -- Signs of the Times: Nietzsche, Deconstruction, and the Truth of History -- Irony, Detachment, and the Aesthetic State -- Terrible Flowers: Jean Paulhan and the Irony of Rhetoric -- The Irony of Tomorrow -- On Parole: Legacies of Saussure, Blanchot, and Paulhan -- "What Is Happening Today in Deconstruction" -- Bewildering: Paul de Man, Poetry, Politics -- Coda: Dark Freedom in J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace.
Abstract:
What is it about irony--as an object of serious philosophical reflection and a literary technique of considerable elasticity--that makes it an occasion for endless critical debate? This book responds to this question by focusing on several key moments in German Romanticism and its afterlife in twentieth-century French thought and writing. It includes chapters on Friedrich Schlegel, Soren Kierkegaard, Friedrich Nietzsche, Thomas Mann, Jean Paulhan, Jacques Derrida, and Paul de Man.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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