| Description |
xvi, 201 pages ; 24 cm |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
pt. 1. Contingency: Contingency of language -- Contingency of selfhood -- Contingency of a liberal community -- pt. 2. Ironism and theory: Private irony and liberal hope -- Self-creation and affiliation: Proust, Nietzsche, and Heidegger -- From ironist theory to private allusions: Derrida -- pt. 3. Cruelty and solidarity: Barber of Kasbeam: Nabokov on cruelty -- Last intellectual in Europe: Orwell on cruelty -- Solidarity. |
| Subject |
Language and languages -- Philosophy.
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Language and languages -- Philosophy. |
| Indexed Term |
Western philosophy |
| ISBN |
0521353815 |
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9780521353816 |
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0521367816 paperback |
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9780521367813 paperback |
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