A Case for Irony (Tanner lectures on human values)
Lear, Jonathan
ISBN 10: 0674061454 ISBN 13: 9780674061453
Published by Harvard University Press, 2011
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Vanity Fair has declared the Age of Irony over. Joan Didion has lamented that Obama’s United States is an “irony-free zone." Here Jonathan Lear argues that irony is one of the tools we use to live seriously, to get the hang of becoming human. It forces us to experience disruptions in our habitual ways of tuning out of life, but comes with a cost.
About the Author: Jonathan Lear was John U. Nef Distinguished Service Professor on the Committee on Social Thought and in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Chicago. He held positions at Cambridge University and Yale University, and was a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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Title: A Case for Irony (Tanner lectures on human ...
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication Date: 2011
Binding: hardcover
Condition: Very Good