LEADER 03969nam 2200613Ia 450 001 9910457276703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-674-06314-7 024 7 $a10.4159/harvard.9780674063143 035 $a(CKB)2550000000057281 035 $a(OCoLC)758389540 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10504833 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000566431 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11375273 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000566431 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10552431 035 $a(PQKB)10606093 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3300985 035 $a(DE-B1597)178121 035 $a(OCoLC)979746652 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674063143 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3300985 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10504833 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000057281 100 $a20110408d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 12$aA case for irony$b[electronic resource] /$fJonathan Lear ; with commentary by Cora Diamond ... [et al.] 210 $aCambridge, Mass. $cHarvard University Press$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (224 p.) 225 0 $aThe Tanner lectures on human values 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-674-06145-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tContents -- $tPreface -- $tI. The Lectures -- $t1. To Become Human Does Not Come That Easily -- $t2. Ironic Soul -- $tII. Commentary -- $t3. Self-Constitution and Irony / $rKorsgaard, Christine M. -- $t4. Irony, Reflection, and Psychic Unity -- $t5. Psychoanalysis and the Limits of Reflection / $rMoran, Richard -- $t6. The Immanence of Irony and the Efficacy of Fantasy -- $t7. Thoughts about Irony and Identity / $rDiamond, Cora -- $t8. Flight from Irony -- $t9. On the Observing Ego and the Experiencing Ego / $rPaul, Robert A. -- $t10. Observing Ego and Social Voice -- $tNotes -- $tCommentators -- $tIndex 330 $aIn 2001, Vanity Fair declared that the Age of Irony was over. Joan Didion has lamented that the United States in the era of Barack Obama has become an ";irony-free zone."; Jonathan Lear in his 2006 book Radical Hope looked into America's heart to ask how might we dispose ourselves if we came to feel our way of life was coming to an end. Here, he mobilizes a squad of philosophers and a psychoanalyst to once again forge a radical way forward, by arguing that no genuinely human life is possible without irony.Becoming human should not be taken for granted, Lear writes. It is something we accomplish, something we get the hang of, and like Kierkegaard and Plato, Lear claims that irony is one of the essential tools we use to do this. For Lear and the participants in his Socratic dialogue, irony is not about being cool and detached like a player in a Woody Allen film. That, as Johannes Climacus, one of Kierkegaard's pseudonymous authors, puts it, "is something only assistant professors assume." Instead, it is a renewed commitment to living seriously, to experiencing every disruption that shakes us out of our habitual ways of tuning out of life, with all its vicissitudes. While many over the centuries have argued differently, Lear claims that our feelings and desires tend toward order, a structure that irony shakes us into seeing. Lear's exchanges with his interlocutors strengthen his claims, while his experiences as a practicing psychoanalyst bring an emotionally gripping dimension to what is at stake-the psychic costs and benefits of living with irony. 606 $aIrony 606 $aCynicism 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aIrony. 615 0$aCynicism. 676 $a128 700 $aLear$b Jonathan$0170234 701 $aDiamond$b Cora$0170338 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910457276703321 996 $aA case for irony$92474643 997 $aUNINA