
E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction
Essays
Jesus and Yahweh: the names divine (2005), p 10.
E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction
Essays
Gardons-nous de l'ironie en jugeant. De toutes les dispositions de l'esprit, l'ironie est la moins intelligente.
Notebook entry, February 24, 1848, cited from Les cahiers de Sainte-Beuve (Paris: Alphonse Lemerre, 1876) p. 75; Christopher Prendergast The Classic (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007) p. 244.
E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction
Essays
Source: Nietzsche: Life as Literature (1985), p. 26.
1840s, On the Concept of Irony with Continual Reference to Socrates (1841)
“Irony, forsooth! Guard yourself, Engineer, from the sort of irony that thrives up here”
Source: The Magic Mountain (1924), Ch. 5
Context: Irony, forsooth! Guard yourself, Engineer, from the sort of irony that thrives up here; guard yourself altogether from taking on their mental attitude! Where irony is not a direct and classic device of oratory, not for a moment equivocal to a healthy mind, it makes for depravity, it becomes a drawback to civilization, an unclean traffic with the forces of reaction, vice and materialism.
The Autobiography of a Sexually Emancipated Communist Woman (1926)