Outbidding Foolishness
"Our age demands something more: it demands, if not lofty then at least loud-voiced pathos, if not speculation then surely results, if not truth then conviction, if not honesty then certainly affadavits to that effect, if not emotion then incessant talk about it…" ~Kierkegaard, The Concept of Irony Irony may be defined as the conflict of two meanings which has a dramatic structure peculiar to itself: initially, one meaning, the appearance, presents itself as the obvious truth, but when the context of this meaning unfolds, in depth or in time, it surprisingly discloses a conflicting meaning, the reality, measured against which the first meaning now seems false and, in its self-assurance, blind to its own situation....
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