{"id":3897,"date":"2020-07-22T15:19:08","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T14:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/?p=3897"},"modified":"2020-07-22T15:19:08","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T14:19:08","slug":"dieter-declercq-publishes-on-irony-disruption-and-moral-imperfection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2020\/07\/22\/dieter-declercq-publishes-on-irony-disruption-and-moral-imperfection\/","title":{"rendered":"Dieter Declercq publishes on Irony, Disruption and Moral Imperfection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/arts\/people\/2335\/declercq-dieter\">Dr Dieter Declercq<\/a>, Lecturer in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/arts\/subjects\/film\">Film<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/arts\/subjects\/media-studies\">Media Studies<\/a> in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/arts\">School of Arts<\/a>, has recently published an article entitled <a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s10677-020-10105-z#Sec1\">&#8216;Irony, Disruption and Moral Imperfection<\/a>&#8216; for the journal <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.springer.com\/journal\/10677\">Ethical Theory and Moral Practice<\/a><\/em>, which is free to read online.<\/p>\n<p><i>Ethical Theory and Moral Practice<\/i> aims to publish the best work produced in all fields of ethics, accessible to the philosophical community at large and free of any jargon and formal apparatus.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t you just feel like such a Chidi sometimes? Dieter&#8217;s new article about how the ironic representation of moral perfectionists like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbc.com\/the-good-place\/credits\/character\/chidi\">Chidi Anagonye<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbc.com\/the-good-place\"><em>The Good Place<\/em><\/a> can help us manage our wellbeing. Ironic characters like Chidi show us what life would be like if we always aspired to make the morally perfect choice: unbearable. Irony allows us to distance ourselves from an otherwise oppressing ideal or moral perfectionism and helps us come to terms with our imperfections.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I argue that the morally suspicious reputation of irony unduly persists because the irony which is existentially and morally relevant has not been primarily understood as an offshoot of communicative irony&#8217;, Dieter writes. &#8216;Redressing this oversight, I do not conclude that irony is by default morally virtuous. Yet, equally, irony is also not by default morally suspicious. Rather, irony is a form of emotional distancing which can mediate the unavoidable disruption of moral imperfection in our lives, when applied with the right measure, in the right circumstances.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Dieter&#8217;s article is free to read on the publisher&#8217;s website here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s10677-020-10105-z\">https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s10677-020-10105-z<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Dieter Declercq, Lecturer in Film and Media Studies in the School of Arts, has recently published an article entitled &#8216;Irony, Disruption and Moral Imperfection&#8216; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2020\/07\/22\/dieter-declercq-publishes-on-irony-disruption-and-moral-imperfection\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55813,"featured_media":2447,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1123,168423,124,9112,9111],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3897"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55813"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3897"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3909,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3897\/revisions\/3909"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}