Single Idea 22029

[catalogued under 23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 3. Angst]

Full Idea

Irony is thus the appropriate stance to feeling that is both inescapably committed and inescapably detached at the same time.

Gist of Idea

Irony is the response to conflicts of involvement and attachment

Source

report of Friedrich Schlegel (works [1798]) by Terry Pinkard - German Philosophy 1760-1860 06

Book Reference

Pinkard,Terry: 'German Philosophy 1760-1860' [CUP 2002], p.161


A Reaction

This is the epitome of romanticism, which carries over into the dilemmas of existentialism. Striking the right balance between caring and not caring seems to me to be the main focus of modern British people.