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.