Irony and the Logic of Modernity

by Armen Avanessian

The 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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3110302209
• ISBN13: 9783110302202
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: de Gruyter
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"