Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity
- New York Cambridge University 1989
- 201p
includes index and biblioraphy
PART I:CONTINGENCY 1. The Contingency of language 2. The Contigency of selfhood 3. The contigency of a liberal community PART II: IRONISM AND THEORY 4. Private irony and liberal hope 5. Self-creation and affiliation:Proust,Nietzsche and Heidegger 6. From ironist theory to private allusions:Derrida PART III:CRUELTY AND SOLIDARITY 7. The barber of kasbeam:Nabokov on cruelty 8. The last intellectual in Europe:Orwell on cruelty 9. Solidarity