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The Odd One In - On Comedy (Paperback) Loot Price: R1,225
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The Odd One In - On Comedy (Paperback): Alenka Zupancic

The Odd One In - On Comedy (Paperback)

Alenka Zupancic

Series: Short Circuits

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Why philosophize about comedy? What is the use of investigating the comical from philosophical and psychoanalytic perspectives? In The Odd One In, Alenka Zupancic haceks over both cs] considers how philosophy and psychoanalysis can help us understand the movement and the logic involved in the practice of comedy, and how comedy can help philosophy and psychoanalysis recognize some of the crucial mechanisms and vicissitudes of what is called humanity. Comedy by its nature is difficult to pin down with concepts and definitions, but as artistic form and social practice comedy is a mode of tarrying with a foreign object--of including the exception. Philosophy's relationship to comedy, Zupancic haceks over both cs] writes, is not exactly a simple story (and indeed includes some elements of comedy). It could begin with the lost book of Aristotle's Poetics, which discussed comedy and laughter (and was made famous by Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose). But Zupancic haceks over both cs] draws on a whole range of philosophers and exemplars of comedy, from Aristophanes, Moliere, Hegel, Freud, and Lacan to George W. Bush and Borat. She distinguishes incisively between comedy and ideologically imposed, "naturalized" cheerfulness. Real, subversive comedy thrives on the short circuits that establish an immediate connection between heterogeneous orders. Zupancic haceks over both cs] examines the mechanisms and processes by which comedy lets the odd one in. Alenka Zupancic haceks over both cs] is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy, Slovene Academy of Sciences, Ljubljana. She is the author of The Shortest Shadow: Nietzsche's Philosophy of the Two (MIT Press, 2003)."

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Imprint: MIT Press
Country of origin: United States
Series: Short Circuits
Release date: February 2008
First published: 2008
Authors: Alenka Zupancic (Senior Research Fellow)
Dimensions: 203 x 137 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 978-0-262-74031-9
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > The arts: general issues > General
Books > Humanities > Philosophy > General
Books > Philosophy > General
LSN: 0-262-74031-1
Barcode: 9780262740319

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