A case for irony /
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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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
2011
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Series: | Tanner lectures on human values (Cambridge, Mass.)
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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.