Conclusions
Hopefully, in the extended analysis of irony I offer in this series of essays, there is some guidance for each of us regarding not only what it means to live in irony, but also how this condition of contemporary, 21st Century life opens new opportunities for us – or at least enables us to live in what Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (1990) calls a state of “flow” (a concept to which I turn later in this book). We are faced with the opportunity and challenge inherent in the process of flexible, contingent head and heart.
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Csikszentmihalyi, M. (1990) Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience. New York: HarperCollins.
Lyotard, J. (1984). The Postmodern Condition. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Rorty, R. (1989) Contingency, Irony & Solidarity. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.
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