Political Returns: Irony In Politics And Theory From Plato To The Antinuclear Movement

by John Evan Seery

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367299019
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/31/2024
Pages:	394
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Table of 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