David Foster Wallace and the Joy of Irony
"I want to convince you that irony, poker-faced silence, and fear of ridicule are distinctive of those features of contemporary U.S. culture (of which cutting-edge fiction is…
"I want to convince you that irony, poker-faced silence, and fear of ridicule are distinctive of those features of contemporary U.S. culture (of which cutting-edge fiction is…
The Postmodern Irony of David Foster Wallace When you meet a new acquaintance at a social gathering, your first instinct is to seek common ground. The more…
“I have never done it before—stepping out of the life into the Alongside and looking at oneself living as if one were not alive. Do they all…
"Nature here sets, even to the universal genius, a limit which it cannot pass, and truth will make martyrs so long as philosophy still holds it to…
The intelligentsia professes an admiration for irony. In the 1990s the members of that class watched Seinfeld in first-run and they bought the program on DVD because…
Plato’s Republic stands in contradistinction to Aristotle’s Politics, indeed, it stands in contradistinction to almost all other works of political philosophy because Plato never speaks in the…