Why so serious : on philosophy and comedy /: on philosophy and comedy. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Russell Ford.
• Editors: Ford, Russell
• Contents: Introduction: Why So Serious? On Philosophy and Comedy Russell Ford 1. Plato and the Spectacle of Laughter Michael Naas 2. Homage to Penia: Aristophanes’ Plutus as Philosophical Comedy Bernard Freydberg 3. Prostrating Before Adrasteia: Comedy, Philosophy and ‘One’s Own’ in Republic V Sonja Tanner 4. At Least They Had an Ethos : Comedy as the Only Possible Critique Richard A. Lee, Jr. 5. Absolute Knowing: Consternation and Preservation in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit and Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida Jennifer Ann Bates 6. Something Mechanical Encrusted on the Living or, "Que Signifie le Rire?" Richard Doyle 7. Humor, Law, and Jurisprudence: On Deleuze’s Political Philosophy Russell Ford 8. Go Bleep Yourself: Why Censorship is Funny Robert T. Valgenti 9. Quantum Andy: Andy Kaufman and the Postmodern Turn in Comedy H. Peter Steeves 10. Being Funny: Ontology is a Queer Subject (or, Tractatus Cucumber Saladicus) (a Zen Maoist Koan) Bill Martin
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 809.917; Comedy -- Philosophy; Tragedy -- Philosophy
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781351363020
• Related ISBNs: 9781351363037; 9781351363013; 9780203712559
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