Sentences with phrase «ironist even»
He has a great deal of fun suggesting that public rhetoric should not be ironist even in «the ideal liberal society.»
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Refusing to accept the ethical postulate conjoining self - realization and the social good which was at the heart of Dewey's ethics throughout his career, Rorty has argued for a «liberal utopia» in which there prevails a rigid division between a rich, autonomous private sphere that will enable elite «ironists» like himself to create freely the self they wish — even if that bares a cruel, antidemocratic self — and a lean, egalitiarian, «democratic» public life confined to the task of preventing cruelty (including that of elite ironists).
It's cheeky, sincere, and nostalgic all at once — which is perhaps why the earnest ironist Wes Anderson bathed the entirety of The Grand Budapest Hotel in the color — filling us with a bright, wide - eyed wonder and even, for at least a moment, keeping us calm.