A Case for Irony (Tanner lectures on human values)

Name: A Case for Irony (Tanner lectures on human values)
Brand: Harvard University Press
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hardcover – October 24, 2011

by Lear, Jonathan

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ISBN-13: 9780674061453 ISBN-10: 0674061454

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Harvard University Press

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hardcover

Published

October 24, 2011

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1.0 lbs

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23.50×1.90×15.60 cm

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A Case for Irony (Tanner lectures on human values) by Lear, Jonathan. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780674061453.

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.