"This book is an attempt at restating the importance of the great metaphysical categories of substance and accident, form and matter, life and death for the present: how our contemporary predicament forces us both to reclaim them and to give them a radically new twist"--
"This book is an attempt at restating the importance of the great metaphysical categories of substance and accident, form and matter, life and death for the present: how our contemporary predicament forces us both to reclaim them and to give them a radically new twist"--
Examining how thinkers identify the political contradictions of the 20th century as ironical, this book offers an account of the constitutive irony of modernity's ethical, poetical, and political logic.