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Laughter as politics : critical theory in an age of hilarity / Patrick T. Giamario.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Giamario, Patrick T., author.
- Series:
- Taking on the Political
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political science.
- Comedy--Political aspects.
- Comedy.
- Wit and humor--Political aspects.
- Wit and humor.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vii, 215 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press Ltd, 2022.
- Summary:
- Laughter As Politics offers a novel account of laughter's role in contemporary political life. A world awash in hilarity has rendered the traditional philosophical question of whether laughter should play a role in politics obsolete. Faced with the laughter generated by late-night comedians, Twitter trolls, and reality TV presidents, we must instead trace how laughter operates politically. Only an account of gelopolitics - that is, of the concrete practices of and regulations around laughter (gelos [γέλως]) that shape and reshape a political community - can reveal the possibilities and dangers of the current moment. Through investigations of the accounts of laughter offered by Thomas Hobbes, Theodor Adorno, Ralph Ellison, and feminist and queer thinkers like Hélène Cixous and Judith Butler, this book develops a critical theory of laughter that illuminates laughter as a privileged site wherein the contemporary social order constructs, preserves, and transforms itself politically.
- Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Introducing gelopolitics
- Laughing body politic : The counter/sovereign politics of Hobbes's theory of laughter
- Beyond a/gelasty : Adorno's critical theory of laughter
- Over a barrel : Ellison and the democratic politics of Black laughter
- Best medicine? Repoliticising laughter for contemporary feminist and queer politics
- End of laughter? Gelopolitics and the new agelasty.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 18 Nov 2024).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-4744-9157-X
- 1-3995-1904-2
- 1-4744-9156-1
- OCLC:
- 1312726745
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