1st Edition
Political Returns Irony In Politics And Theory From Plato To The Antinuclear Movement
By John Evan Seery
Copyright 1990
394 Pages
by
Routledge
384 Pages
by
Routledge
384 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book presents a theory of the politics of irony and tests this theory through readings of political theory texts and through an analysis of the politics of the contemporary anti-nuclear movement, and argues that political writing must be ironic.
Introduction to The Morality of Hell -- Politics and Ironic Vision -- Plato's Ironic Republic -- Irony: A Politics of the Page -- Art, Irony, and Politics in the Nineteenth Century -- Political Irony and World War: Thomas Mann's Twentieth-Century Self-Reversal (with Constant Reference to Nietzsche) -- Irony in the Antinuclear Movement -- Irony in Politics and Theory
Biography
John Evan Seery
