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:	9781000307337
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/11/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	384
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

John Evan Seery

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