ironism en · NOUN
Etymology
Coined by American philosopher Richard Rorty, from Ancient Greek εἴρων (eírōn, “one who says less than they think”). By surface analysis, irony + -ism.
Meanings
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(uncountable) A state of doubt regarding one's own "vocabulary" (set of communicative beliefs) that cannot be removed by making arguments in that vocabulary.
Perhaps Rorty's pragmatics of liberal ironism is a better way of understanding the implication of the existence of disdained others on the post-modern.
2002, Keith Tester, The Life and Times of Post-Modernity, Routledge, →ISBN, page 149:
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Translations (1)
it ironismo (state of doubt)