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Styles of Seriousness
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Styles of Seriousness
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Being serious demands serious kinds of work. In Styles of
Seriousness, Steven Connor reflects on the surprisingly various
ways in which a sense of the serious is made and maintained,
revealing that while seriousness is the most powerful feeling, it
is also the most poignantly indeterminate, perhaps because of the
impossibility of being completely serious. In colloquy with
philosophers such as Aristotle, Nietzsche, James, Sartre, Austin,
Agamben and Sloterdijk, and writers like Shakespeare, Byron, Auden
and Orwell, Connor considers the linguistic and ritual behaviors
associated with different modes of seriousness: importance;
intention, or ways of really "meaning things;" sincerity;
solemnity; urgency; regret; warning; and ordeal. The central claim
of the book is human beings are capable of taking things seriously
in a way that nonhuman animals are not, for the unexpected reason
that human beings are so much more versatile than most animals at
not being completely serious. One always, in fact, has a choice
about whether or not to take seriously something that is supposed
to be so. As a consequence, seriousness depends on different kinds
of formalization or stylized practice. Styles of seriousness
matter, Connor shows, because human beings are incapable of simply
and spontaneously existing. Being a human means having to take
seriously one's style of being.
General
Imprint: |
Stanford University Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
September 2023 |
First published: |
2023 |
Authors: |
Steven Connor
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
248 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-5036-3686-6 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
1-5036-3686-0 |
Barcode: |
9781503636866 |
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