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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...
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
2012.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: irony on occasion
- 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
- Fear and trembling: "Who is able to understand Abraham?"
- Postromantic irony
- Signs of the times: Nietzsche, deconstruction, and the truth of history
- Death in Venice: 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.