Ironic Witness 9781498270465, 9781625647443

The Ironic Hume 9781477301746

Many of the seemingly bland assertions and bald statements of the eighteenth-century philosopher David Hume contain more

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Silent Witness

A lifeless body. A string of secret affairs. A silent witness no one knows about. Is it textbook suicide? The NYPD think

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Superactually: Micro-Essays on Post-Ironic Life 1780994656, 9781780994659

To speak ironically is to speak just for the effect. To speak superactually is to do something with words and take respo

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Undivided Witness 9781506483962, 9781506483740

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The Witness Carol

Choicesdomatter and forgivenessispossible. Jack Fountain knows that what’s happened to his family sounds like the most

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The Witness Carol

Choicesdomatter and forgivenessispossible. Jack Fountain knows that what’s happened to his family sounds like the most

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Thoreau’s Ecstatic Witness 9780300129755

When Henry David Thoreau died in 1862, friends and admirers remembered him as an eccentric man whose outer life was cont

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European Witness 0837156432

Originally published in 1946 by Reynal & Hitchcock, New York Stephen Spender was one of a group of highly influent

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Molière as Ironic Contemplator [Reprint 2013 ed.] 9783110873399, 9789027925077

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Acting White: The Ironic Legacy of Desegregation [Illustrated] 9780300171204, 030017120X

Commentators from Bill Crosby to Barack Obama have observed the phenomenon of black schoolchildren accusing studious cla

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