Behler discusses the current state of thought on modernity and
postmodernity, detailing the intellectual problems to be faced and
examining the positions of such central figures in the debate as
Lyotard, Habermas, Rorty, and Derrida. He finds that beyond the
"limits of communication," further discussion must be carried out
through irony. The historical rise of the concept of modernity is
examined through discussions of the querelle des anciens et des
modernes as a break with classical tradition, and on the
theoretical writings of de Stael, the English romantics, and the
great German romantics Schlegel, Hegel, and Nietzsche. The growth
of the concept of irony from a formal rhetorical term to a mode of
indirectness that comes to characterize thought and discourse
generally is then examined from Plato and Socrates to Nietzsche,
who avoided the term "irony" but used it in his cetnral concept of
the mask.
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