Political Returns: Irony in Politics and Theory from Plato to the Antinuclear Movement

ISBN-13: 9780367283551 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 384 str.

John Evan Seery

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

John Evan Seery