Styles of Seriousness Connor Steven
Styles of Seriousness Connor Steven Being serious demands serious kinds of work. The central claim of the book is human beings are capable of taking things seriously in a way that nonhuman animals…
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Styles of Seriousness Connor Steven
Being serious demands serious kinds of work. The central claim of the book is human beings are capable of taking things seriously in a way that nonhuman animals are not, for the In Styles of Seriousness, Steven Connor reflects on the surprisingly various ways in which a sense of the serious is made and maintained, revealing that while seriousness is the most powerful feeling, it is also the most poignantly indeterminate, perhaps because of the impossibility of being completely serious.In colloquy with philosophers such as Aristotle, Nietzsche, James, Sartre, Austin, Agamben and Sloterdijk, and writers like Shakespeare, Byron, Auden and Orwell, Connor considers the linguistic and ritual behaviors associated with different modes of seriousness: importance; intention, or ways of really "meaning things"; sincerity; solemnity; urgency; regret; warning; and ordeal.
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