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Irony on Occasion : From Schlegel and Kierkegaard to Derrida and de Man / Kevin Newmark.

Newmark, Kevin, author.
2022
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Title
Irony on Occasion : From Schlegel and Kierkegaard to Derrida and de Man / Kevin Newmark.
Author
Newmark, Kevin, author.
ISBN
9780823291878
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823291878
Published
New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2022]
Copyright
©2012
Language
English
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In English.
Description
1 online resource (380 p.)
Item Number
10.1515/9780823291878 doi
Summary
What is it about irony-as an object of serious philosophical reflection and a literary technique of considerable elasticity-that makes it an occasion for endless critical debate? This book responds to this question by focusing on several key moments in German Romanticism and its afterlife in twentieth-century French thought and writing. It includes chapters on Friedrich Schlegel, Søren Kierkegaard, Friedrich Nietzsche, Thomas Mann, Jean Paulhan, Maurice Blanchot, Jacques Derrida, and Paul de Man. A coda traces the way unresolved tensions inherited from Romanticism resurface in a novelist like J. M. Coetzee. But this book is neither a historical nor a thematic study of irony. To the degree that irony initiates a deflection of meaning, it also entails a divergence from historical and thematic models of understanding. The book therefore aims to respect irony's digressive force by allowing it to emerge from questions that sometimes have little or nothing to do with the ostensible topic of irony. For if irony is the possibility that whatever is being said does not coincide fully with whatever is being meant, then there is no guarantee that the most legitimate approach to the problem would proceed directly to those places where "irony" is named, described, or presumed to reside. Rather than providing a history of irony, then, this book examines particular occasions of ironic disruption. It thus offers an alternative model for conceiving of historical occurrences and their potential for acquiring meaning.
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Contents
Acknowledgments
Gibs auf!
Give it up!
Introduction: Irony on Occasion
Part one. Romantic Irony
One. Friedrich Schlegel and the Myth of Irony
Two. Taking Kierkegaard Apart: The Concept of Irony
Three. Modernity Interrupted: Kierkegaard's Antigone
Four. Reading Kierkegaard: To Keep Intact the Secret
Five. Fear and Trembling: "Who Is Able to Understand Abraham?"
Part two. Postromantic Irony
Six. Signs of the Times: Nietzsche, Deconstruction, and the Truth of History
Seven. Death in Venice: Irony, Detachment, and the Aesthetic State
Eight. Terrible Flowers: Jean Paulhan and the Irony of Rhetoric
Part three. The Irony of Tomorrow
Nine. On Parole: Legacies of Saussure, Blanchot, and Paulhan
Ten. "What Is Happening Today in Deconstruction"
Eleven. Bewildering: Paul de Man, Poetry, Politics
Coda: Dark Freedom in J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace
Notes
Index

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