Description
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.
Book Details
Format
Kindle
Pages
224 pages
Language
English
Published
Oct 24, 2011
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Editions
2 editions
ISBN-10
0674063147
ISBN-13
9780674063143