A Case for Irony |
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| Author:
| Lear, Jonathan |
| Series title: | The Tanner Lectures on Human Values Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-674-06314-3 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2011 |
| Publisher: | Harvard University Press
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $53.00USD $31.00 |
Book Description:
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Vanity Fair has declared the Age of Irony over. Joan Didion has lamented that Obama's United States is an "irony-free zone." Here Jonathan Lear argues that irony is one of the tools we use to live seriously, to get the hang of becoming human. It forces us to experience disruptions in our habitual ways of tuning out of life, but comes with a cost.
Vanity Fair has declared the Age of Irony over. Joan Didion has lamented that Obama's United States is an "irony-free zone." Here Jonathan Lear argues that irony is one of the tools we use to live seriously, to get the hang of becoming human. It forces us to experience disruptions in our habitual ways of tuning out of life, but comes with a cost.