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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