Case for Irony

by Jonathan Lear

Book Overview

In 2001, Vanity Fair declared that the Age of Irony was over. Joan Didion has lamented that the United States in the era of Barack Obama has become an "irony-free zone." Jonathan Lear in his 2006 book Radical Hope looked into America's heart to ask how might we dispose ourselves if we came to feel our way of life was coming to an end. Here, he mobilizes a squad of philosophers and a psychoanalyst to once again forge a radical way...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674416880
• ISBN13: 9780674416888
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 9.0"