The Object of Comedy: Philosophies and Performances (1st ed. 2019) (Performance Philosophy)

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Synopsis
What is the object of comedy? What makes us laugh and why? Is comedy subversive, restorative or reparative? What is at stake politically, socially and metaphysically when it comes to comedic performances? This book investigates not only the object of comedy but also its objectives – both its deliberate goals and its unintended side effects.In researching the object of comedy, the contributions gathered here encounter comedy as a philosophical object: instead of approaching comedy as a genre, the book engages with it as a language, a medium, an artifice, a weapon, a puzzle or a trouble, a vocation and a repetition. Thus philosophy meets comedy at the intersection of various fields (e.g. psychoanalysis, film studies, cultural studies, and performance studies) –regions that comical practices and theories in fact already traverse.
Copyright:
2019

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ISBN-13:
9783030277420
Related ISBNs:
9783030277413
Publisher:
Springer International Publishing
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Springer
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No
Language:
English
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Categories:
Entertainment, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Drama, Plays and Theater, Philosophy
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Edited by:
Gregor Moder
Edited by:
Jamila M. Mascat

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