Literary Social Criticism: Secondary Readings

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Aristotle. Ars Rhetorica.

Kenneth Burke. The opening argument to The Philosophy of Literary Form.

Jacques Derrida. Limited Inc.

René Descartes. Discourse on the Method.

Jürgen Habermas. From Part II “Social Structures of the Public Sphere” from The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society.

Søren Kierkegaard. Part one of On the Concept of Irony with Continual Reference to Socrates.

Paul de Man. “The Concept of Irony” in Aesthetic Ideology.

Friedrich Nietzsche. On the Genealogy of Morality.

Richard Rorty. Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity.

John R. Searle. Part One “A Theory of Speech Acts” in Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language.