03750nam 2200709 450 991046108700332120210510223753.03-11-042460-63-11-042442-810.1515/9783110424423(CKB)3710000000480572(EBL)4001570(SSID)ssj0001543282(PQKBManifestationID)16134816(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001543282(PQKBWorkID)14665851(PQKB)10157998(MiAaPQ)EBC4001570(DE-B1597)451933(OCoLC)920822711(OCoLC)952787521(DE-B1597)9783110424423(Au-PeEL)EBL4001570(CaPaEBR)ebr11129570(CaONFJC)MIL828077(OCoLC)935243098(EXLCZ)99371000000048057220160106h20152015 uy 0engurnnu---|u||utxtccrIrony and the logic of modernity /Armen Avanessian ; translated by Nils F. SchottBerlin, [Germany] ;Boston, [Massachusetts] :De Gruyter,2015.©20151 online resource (238 p.)Paradigms : Literature and the Human Sciences,2195-2205 ;Volume 3Description based upon print version of record.3-11-030220-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Contents --Introduction --Part One: Rhetorologies --Introduction --1. Successful Reconciliation --2. A Desire for Art --3. Mad Consciousness --Part Two: Ethica --Introduction --1. The Irony of Evil --2. Must We Aestheticize? --3. Masking Irony --4. The Melancholic Subject --5. The Joy of Dissimulation --Part Three: Novel - Modernity - Irony --Introduction --1. The Philosophy of History and the Poetics of Genre --2. The Language of the Novel --3. From Micro-irony (Quotation) to Macro-irony (Genre) --4. Novels of (De)formation and Ironic Autobiographies --Part Four: Ironic Politics --Introduction --1. The Struggle with Irony --2. Thesis and Antithesis --3. The Irony of the Law (Kafka and Deleuze ) --Bibliography --IndexThe 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.Paradigms (Walter de Gruyter & Co.) ;Volume 3.Irony in literatureIronyModernism (Literature)Electronic books.Irony in literature.Irony.Modernism (Literature)809.918EC 3935rvkAvanessian Armen1026129Schott Nils F.MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910461087003321Irony and the logic of modernity2440862UNINA