Ironic Life Bernstein Paperback Polity Press 9781509505739

Ironic Life\nby Richard J. Bernstein\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Richard J. Bernstein\nTitle: Ironic Life\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Philosophy\nPublisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd\nPublication year: 2016\nISBN-13: 9781509505739\nISBN-10: 1509505733\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\""Just as philosophy begins with doubt, so also a life that may be called human begins with irony\"" so wrote Kierkegaard. While we commonly think of irony as a figure of speech where someone says one thing and means the opposite, the concept of irony has long played a more fundamental role in the tradition of philosophy, a role that goes back to Socrates \u00D0 the originator and exemplar of the urbane ironic life. But what precisely is Socratic irony and what relevance, if any, does it .