• Interview 16 - Erica Weitzman, Associate Professor of German at Northwestern University - Bishalach

  • Jun 2 2024
  • Duración: 1 h y 4 m
  • Podcast

Interview 16 - Erica Weitzman, Associate Professor of German at Northwestern University - Bishalach

  • Resumen

  • "Ironic" is a word we throw around in casual conversation. And yet, when we peer back the curtain, we soon see that irony has explosive cultural and philosophical meaning. And what happens when we get ironic about irony itself? That was a devastating question which even Alanis Morrissette seems not to have foreseen. Schlegel, on the other hand... Nowadays, ironic speech is so commonplace that it irks more than it phases. By contrast, in the entire Torah we get just one ironic remark. Professor Erica Weitzman disentangles irony for us and shares her fascinating theory of comic irony.

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