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Irony on Occasion : From Schlegel and Kierkegaard to Derrida and de Man /
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 twentie...
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New York, NY :
Fordham University Press,
[2022]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Gibs auf!
- Give it up!
- Introduction: Irony on Occasion
- Part one. Romantic Irony
- One. Friedrich Schlegel and the Myth of Irony
- Two. Taking Kierkegaard Apart: The Concept of Irony
- Three. Modernity Interrupted: Kierkegaard's Antigone
- Four. Reading Kierkegaard: To Keep Intact the Secret
- Five. Fear and Trembling: "Who Is Able to Understand Abraham?"
- Part two. Postromantic Irony
- Six. Signs of the Times: Nietzsche, Deconstruction, and the Truth of History
- Seven. Death in Venice: Irony, Detachment, and the Aesthetic State
- Eight. Terrible Flowers: Jean Paulhan and the Irony of Rhetoric
- Part three. The Irony of Tomorrow
- Nine. On Parole: Legacies of Saussure, Blanchot, and Paulhan
- Ten. "What Is Happening Today in Deconstruction"
- Eleven. Bewildering: Paul de Man, Poetry, Politics
- Coda: Dark Freedom in J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace
- Notes
- Index