Author: Don Ihde
Publisher: Automatic Press / VIP
Keywords: technics, ironic
Number of Pages: 72
Published: 2008-09-30
List price: $12.00
ISBN-10: 8792130186
ISBN-13: 9788792130181

Even before we humans became modern as homo sapiens we were busy inventing technologies. But our technologies also invent us as humans. And as we reflect upon this process, too often our interpretations have taken utopian or dystopian directions: our technologies will make life infinitely better and lead us into utopian realms, or our technologies will condemn us to alienation or even destroy our humanity itself. This set of essays, however, looks at the ironic dimensions of human-technology relations, at unpredicted, unexpected, surprizing outcomes. Are we today in a ‘knowledge society

Author: R. Jay Magill Jr.
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Keywords: bitterness, ironic, chic
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2007-09-12
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 0472116215
ISBN-13: 9780472116218

A brilliant and timely reflection on irony in contemporary American culture “This book is a powerful and persuasive defense of sophisticated irony and subtle humor that contributes to the possibility of a genuine civic trust and democratic life. R. Jay Magill deserves our congratulations for a superb job!”—Cornel West, University Professor, Princeton University “A well-written, well-argued assessment of the importance of irony in contemporary American social life, along with the nature of recent misguided attacks and, happily, a deep conviction that irony is too important in our lives t

Author: Stuart Buck
Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: desegregation, legacy, ironic, acting
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2010-05-25
List price: $27.50
ISBN-10: 0300123914
ISBN-13: 9780300123913

Commentators from Bill Cosby to Barack Obama have observed the phenomenon of black schoolchildren accusing studious classmates of “acting white.” How did this contentious phrase, with roots in Jim Crow-era racial discord, become a part of the schoolyard lexicon, and what does it say about the state of racial identity in the American system of education?The answer, writes Stuart Buck in this frank and thoroughly researched book, lies in the complex history of desegregation. Although it arose from noble impulses and was to the overall benefit of the nation, racial desegegration was often impl

Author: Walter Brueggemann
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Keywords: studies, personalities, old, testament, achievement, human, israel, ironic, icon, solomon
Number of Pages: 301
Published: 2005-10-30
List price: $44.95
ISBN-10: 1570035784
ISBN-13: 9781570035784

In this study of Solomon and his place in the larger consciousness of Israel, Walter Brueggemann considers what Old Testament narratives regarding David’s heir reveal about the aspirations and ideals of the ancient Israelite people. On the supposition that figures of legend and lore disclose much about the societies celebrating them, Brueggemann examines assertions about Solomon, a man praised for his wealth, wisdom, and power and depicted as an example of enormous human achievement. Looking beneath the surface of these claims, however, Brueggemann notes that an irony permeates the tradition

Authors:Thomas Mann, Erich Heller,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: german, ironic, mann, thomas
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 1981-03-12
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0521235464
ISBN-13: 9780521235464

In this book, which was first published in 1958 and reissued in 1981, Professor Heller sees Mann as the late heir of the central tradition of modern German literature and also as one of the most ironic writers within that tradition. He offers a detailed study of the major works of fiction, Buddenbrooks, Tonio Kroher, Death in Venice, The Magic Mountain, Joseph and His Brothers, Doctor Faustus and Felix Krull, as well as a discussion of Mann’s most significant political essay, ’Meditations of a Non-Political Man’. Beyond this, Heller’s book is a profound commentary on Ma