Ironic Life
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12947435 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Simone Webb (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Pages | 128-131 |
| Publication date | 2019-06-09 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Foucault Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1832-5203 • E-ISSN: 1832-5203 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.22439/fs.v0i26.5763 |
| OpenAlex | W4240036797 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 1 |
Irony" may evoke for many a literary device defined by Quintilian as "that figure of speech or tropes in which something contrary to what is said is to be understood." 1 So understood, irony has been the topic of literary debates, but has been little attended to in the mainstream Anglo-American philosophical sphere -or so Richard J. Bernstein contends in Ironic Life (2016). His contribution to addressing philosophy's neglect of irony, however, takes as its concern not a rhetorical trope but, more intriguing, the notion of irony as a way of living a human life. In exploring "ironic life" from its two major historical advocates and exemplars, Socrates and Kierkegaard, through to four modern philosophers who address the topic, Bernstein engages with the question of not just what irony is, but what philosophy and human life itself can be
Art · Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Wittgensteinian philosophy and applications
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |