Critical Irony or the Lovers of Ruins: The Aesthete, the Dandy and the Flâneur
Abstract: This essay examines the critical character of Friedrich Schlegel’s Romantic irony, following its considerations and appropriations by Walter Benjamin, Harold Bloom and Paul de Man. Likewise, it shows a parallelism of this critical attitude of irony with three Romantic literary figures: the aesthete, the dandy and the flâneur. These figures, joined by a prophetic faith in art, make of irony a profession which moves between creation and destruction. Appropriation in the poststructuralist context allows us to perceive irony in such a radical incomprehension, developing an aesthetic pattern that operates between creation and annihilation.
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| Language: | English |
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Universidad Panamericana, Facultad de Filosofía
2017
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| Online Access: | http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0188-66492017000100151 |
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