I would have to agree with Brad here. With my limited exposure to Hegel
I will have to go with what seems to make sense in his statement- and
that is a dynamic relationship between thesis and antithesis.
I had forgotten about Geist Brad- thanks for bringing it up.
Funny thing- I've started my reading on irony. I've nibbled away at
Stable and unstable ironies as well as finite and infinite irony. Geist
fits into it because irony illuminates a truth that is held only in the
mind of the reader of that irony. It presents a Geist.
An irony is any discourse that requires reconstruction by the reader and
inference of the author's position based on that reconstruction.
He uses the following example (which I love, living here in rainy
Vancouver).
A walks into a room, he is dripping wet. He says "Do you think it will
rain today?"
You can see the inferred truth in the statement.
That was way off topic, but I thought I'd mention it because way back
when I joined the list I said I was interested in Irony as cultural
discourse. Some of you responded with excellent suggestions for reading
and angles of approach.
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