Irony in the Age of Empire - 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 in the Age of Empire write by Cynthia Willett. This book was released on 2008-07-09. Irony in the Age of Empire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Comedy, from social ridicule to the unruly laughter of the carnival, provides effective tools for reinforcing social patterns of domination as well as weapons for emancipation. In Irony in the Age of Empire, Cynthia Willett asks: What could embody liberation better than laughter? Why do the oppressed laugh? What vision does the comic world prescribe? For Willett, the comic trumps standard liberal accounts of freedom by drawing attention to bodies, affects, and intimate relationships, topics which are usually neglected by political philosophy. Willett's philosophical reflection on comedy issues a powerful challenge to standard conceptions of freedom by proposing a new kind of freedom that is unapologetically feminist, queer, and multiracial. This book provides a wide-ranging, original, thoughtful, and expansive discussion of citizenship, social manners, and political freedom in our world today.
Irony, Misogyny and Interpretation
Irony, Misogyny and Interpretation - 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, Misogyny and Interpretation write by Tom Grimwood. This book was released on 2012-12-04. Irony, Misogyny and Interpretation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What is it to claim that “misogyny” might be “ironic”? Why is it that, in the works of Nietzsche, Kierkegaard and Schopenhauer, the possibility of irony constantly interferes with a conclusive ethical judgement over the meaning of their “misogyny”? How do we hold our interpretations of such ambiguous texts ethically accountable? This book brings together the driving concerns of hermeneutics, feminist philosophy and the history of philosophy in dealing with the “problem of irony”. It develops a thematic account of the concept of irony as a philosophical form of interpretation, and explores this through close readings of three key sites of controversy regarding the relationship between irony and misogyny: Schopenhauer’s “On Women”, Kierkegaard’s “In Vino Veritas” and Nietzsche’s “Woman and Child”. Far from a distraction from or “excuse” for misogyny, the book argues that ironic ambiguity is a formative aspect of all three texts; and explores the different ways in which the authority of Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard and Nietzsche are constructed in terms of the problem of irony.
Edge of Irony
Edge of Irony - 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 Edge of Irony write by Marjorie Perloff. This book was released on 2016-05-06. Edge of Irony available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "An earlier version of chapter 1 appeared as "Avant-Garde in a Different Key: Karl Kraus's The Last Days of Mankind," Critical Inquiry 40, no. 2 (Winter 2014): 311-38."
Of Irony and Empire
Of Irony and Empire - 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 Of Irony and Empire write by Laura Rice. This book was released on 2012-02-01. Of Irony and Empire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Of Irony and Empire is a dynamic, thorough examination of Muslim writers from former European colonies in Africa who have increasingly entered into critical conversations with the metropole. Focusing on the period between World War I and the present, "the age of irony," this book explores the political and symbolic invention of Muslim Africa and its often contradictory representations. Through a critical analysis of irony and resistance in works by writers who come from nomadic areas around the Sahara—Mustapha Tlili (Tunisia), Malika Mokeddem (Algeria), Cheikh Hamidou Kane (Senegal), and Tayeb Salih (Sudan)—Laura Rice offers a fresh perspective that accounts for both the influence of the Western, instrumental imaginary, and the Islamic, holistic one.
Of Irony and Empire
Of Irony and Empire - 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 Of Irony and Empire write by Laura Rice. This book was released on 2008-06-05. Of Irony and Empire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Examines the transformative power of irony in the creation of Muslim Africa.
