Irony and the Discourse of Modernity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Irony and the Discourse of Modernity write by Ernst Behler. This book was released on 2014-07-01. Irony and the Discourse of Modernity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Divine Madness
Divine Madness - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Divine Madness write by Lars Elleström. This book was released on 2002. Divine Madness available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book provides a theory that enables the concept of irony to be transferred from the literary to the visual and aural domains. Topics include the historical roots of the concept of irony as modes of oral and literary expression, and how irony relates to spatiality.
Irony and the Logic of Modernity
Irony and the Logic of Modernity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Irony and the Logic of Modernity write by Armen Avanessian. This book was released on 2015-09-14. Irony and the Logic of Modernity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Karl Kraus and the Discourse of Modernity
Karl Kraus and the Discourse of Modernity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Karl Kraus and the Discourse of Modernity write by Ari Linden. This book was released on 2020-05-15. Karl Kraus and the Discourse of Modernity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ari Linden’s Karl Kraus and the Discourse of Modernity reconsiders the literary works of the Viennese satirist, journalist, and playwright Karl Kraus (1874–1936). Combining close readings with intellectual history, Linden shows how Kraus’s two major literary achievements (The Last Days of Mankind and The Third Walpurgis Night) and his adaptation of The Birds by Aristophanes (Cloudcuckooland) address the political catastrophes of the first third of Europe’s twentieth century—from World War I to the rise of fascism. Kraus’s central insight, Linden argues, is that the medial representations of such events have produced less an informed audience than one increasingly unmoved by mass violence. In the second part of the book, Linden explores this insight as he sees it inflected in the writings of Søren Kierkegaard, Walter Benjamin, and Theodor Adorno. This hidden dialogue, Linden claims, offers us a richer understanding of the often-neglected relationship between satire and critical theory writ large.
Irony's Antics
Irony's Antics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Irony's Antics write by Erica Weitzman. This book was released on 2015. Irony's Antics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Irony's Antics marks a major intervention into the underexplored role of the comic in German letters. At the book's heart is the relationship between the comic and irony. Weitzman argues that in the early twentieth century, irony, a key figure for the German Romantics, reemerged from its relegation to "nonsense" in a way that both rethought Romantic irony and dramatically extended its reach.
