| Description |
xvi, 201 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
pt. 1. Contingency: The contingency of language -- The contingency of selfhood -- The 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: The barber of Kasbeam: Nabokov on cruelty -- The last intellectual in Europe: Orwell on cruelty -- Solidarity. |
| Subject |
Language and languages -- Philosophy.
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| ISBN |
0521367816 (pbk.) |
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9780521367813 (pbk.) |
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0521353815 |
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9780521353816 |
| Standard No. |
NLGGC 048100196 |
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