Buchdetails
Format
Kindle
Seiten
224
Sprache
Englisch
Veröffentlicht
Oct 24, 2011
Verlag
Harvard University Press
ISBN-10
0674063147
ISBN-13
9780674063143
Beschreibung
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.