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Irony and the Logic of Modernity (Hardcover)
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Irony and the Logic of Modernity (Hardcover)
Series: Paradigms
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The logic of modernity is an ironical logic. Modern irony, a flash
of genius produced by Romantic theorists, is first discussed, e.g.
in Hegel and Kierkegaard, as an ethical problem personified in
figures such as the aesthete, the seducer, the flaneur, or the
dandy. It fully develops in the novel, the modern genre par
excellence: in novels of the early 19th century no less than in
those of postmodernity or in those of the masters of citation,
parody, and pastiche of classical modernism (Musil, Joyce, and
Proust). This book, however, goes one step further. Looking at how
such different authors as Schmitt, Kafka, and Rorty identify the
political conflicts, contradictions, and paradoxes of the 20th
century as ironical and offers a comprehensive account of the
constitutive irony of modernity's ethical, poetical, and political
logic.
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