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

Seery, John Evan

Routledge（2024/05発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 394 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780367299019
• DDC分類 320.509

Full Description

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.

Contents

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