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c o n t e n t s Acknowledgments vii Introduction: Irony on Occasion 1 p a r t i . r o m a n t i c i r o n y 1. Friedrich Schlegel and the Myth of Irony 15 2. Taking Kierkegaard Apart: The Concept of Irony 41 3. Modernity Interrupted: Kierkegaard’s Antigone 66 4. Reading Kierkegaard: To Keep Intact the Secret 96 5. Fear and Trembling: “Who Is Able to Understand Abraham?” 121 p a r t i i . p o s t r o m a n t i c i r o n y 6. Signs of the Times: Nietzsche, Deconstruction, and the Truth of History 149 7. Death in Venice: Irony, Detachment, and the Aesthetic State 177 8. Terrible Flowers: Jean Paulhan and the Irony of Rhetoric 203 p a r t i i i . t h e i r o n y o f t o m o r r o w 9. On Parole: Legacies of Saussure, Blanchot, and Paulhan 223 10. “What Is Happening Today in Deconstruction” 242 11. Bewildering: Paul de Man, Poetry, Politics 261 Coda: Dark Freedom in J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace 282 Notes 297 Index 351 ...

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