Word: zeitgest
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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...presumption that people were interested in how other people were doing and the preemptive sneer of bad irony didn’t have a place,” says Jedediah Purdy `97, author of For Common Things: Irony, Trust and Commitment in America Today and another upcoming zeitgest-chaser about globalization. Purdy has thought a bit about irony, and he has thought it through a bit more than the people who announced its demise. Initial shock meant parody was paralyzed, but only temporarily...
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