Incomprensibilità e ironia. Filosofia e letteratura in Friedrich Schlegel e Paul de Man
The philosophy of irony has had, since its romantic origins, no good reputation because of its methodological and logical inconclusiveness and its contamination with literature. Whether we talk about Friedrich Schlegel or Paul de Man, about Søren Kierkegaard or Friedrich Nietzsche, Richard Rorty or...
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| description | The philosophy of irony has had, since its romantic origins, no good reputation because of its methodological and logical inconclusiveness and its contamination with literature. Whether we talk about Friedrich Schlegel or Paul de Man, about Søren Kierkegaard or Friedrich Nietzsche, Richard Rorty or Peter Sloterdijk, the “ironists” are hated because of their ability to say, even on the verge of death: “however”. The charge that philosophy makes against ironists is based on three “suspicions”: 1) that they are not philosophically consistent and, therefore, that they, ultimately, do not know how to ironize themselves; 2) that their irony is only a disguised “egology”, as Hegel would claim and assumes literary forms; 3) finally that they are vitiated by a sort of anthropological “lack of commitment”, or – as Rorty would say – a “lack of solidarity”, and, therefore, they are quite often ineffective and even harmful from a social and political point of view. In the following pages I will try to dissolve these “suspicions” through a close and “ironic” reading of two texts that belong to this tradition of cultural (not only literary) analysis, telling the story of an elective affinity between two emblematic thinkers: Friedrich Schlegel and Paul de Man. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-ef718526be8d4047a5886f39301352482022-12-22T02:59:47ZengRosenberg & SellierRivista di Estetica0035-62122019-04-0170314810.4000/estetica.5045Incomprensibilità e ironia. Filosofia e letteratura in Friedrich Schlegel e Paul de ManMichele CometaThe philosophy of irony has had, since its romantic origins, no good reputation because of its methodological and logical inconclusiveness and its contamination with literature. Whether we talk about Friedrich Schlegel or Paul de Man, about Søren Kierkegaard or Friedrich Nietzsche, Richard Rorty or Peter Sloterdijk, the “ironists” are hated because of their ability to say, even on the verge of death: “however”. The charge that philosophy makes against ironists is based on three “suspicions”: 1) that they are not philosophically consistent and, therefore, that they, ultimately, do not know how to ironize themselves; 2) that their irony is only a disguised “egology”, as Hegel would claim and assumes literary forms; 3) finally that they are vitiated by a sort of anthropological “lack of commitment”, or – as Rorty would say – a “lack of solidarity”, and, therefore, they are quite often ineffective and even harmful from a social and political point of view. In the following pages I will try to dissolve these “suspicions” through a close and “ironic” reading of two texts that belong to this tradition of cultural (not only literary) analysis, telling the story of an elective affinity between two emblematic thinkers: Friedrich Schlegel and Paul de Man.http://journals.openedition.org/estetica/5045ironyincomprehensibilityRomanticism |
| spellingShingle | Michele Cometa Incomprensibilità e ironia. Filosofia e letteratura in Friedrich Schlegel e Paul de Man Rivista di Estetica irony incomprehensibility Romanticism |
| title | Incomprensibilità e ironia. Filosofia e letteratura in Friedrich Schlegel e Paul de Man |
| title_full | Incomprensibilità e ironia. Filosofia e letteratura in Friedrich Schlegel e Paul de Man |
| title_fullStr | Incomprensibilità e ironia. Filosofia e letteratura in Friedrich Schlegel e Paul de Man |
| title_full_unstemmed | Incomprensibilità e ironia. Filosofia e letteratura in Friedrich Schlegel e Paul de Man |
| title_short | Incomprensibilità e ironia. Filosofia e letteratura in Friedrich Schlegel e Paul de Man |
| title_sort | incomprensibilita e ironia filosofia e letteratura in friedrich schlegel e paul de man |
| topic | irony incomprehensibility Romanticism |
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