The Object of Comedy: Philosophies and Performances

ISBN-13: 9783030277444 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 300 str.

Jamila M. H. Mascat; Gregor Moder

Spis treści

A Head or a Cannonball? An Introduction to the Object of Comedy – Jamila M. H. Mascat and Gregor Moder

Section 1 – Comic Philosophy

Chapter 1. The uncanny and the comic. Freud avec Lubitsch – Mladen Dolar

Chapter 2. How They Fought – Sandra Laugier

Chapter 3. Hegel and the Misadventures of Consciousness. On Comedy and Revolutionary Partisanship – Jamila M. H. Mascat

Chapter 4. The Aborted Object of Comedy & the Birth of the Subject. Socrates and Aristophanes’ Alliance – Rachel Aumiller

Section 2 – Comic Psychoanalysis

Chapter 5. The Three Moments of Comedy – Robert Pfaller

Chapter 6. From Objects of Desire to Objects of Comedy in Chaplin’s Modern Times – Alfie Bown

Chapter 7. Where Does Dirt Come From? – Alenka Zupančič

Section 3 – Screening Comedy

Chapter 8. Seriously Funny: Comedy and Authority in The Boss of it All – Benjamin Noys

Chapter 9. Stoicism, Causality, Divine Providence and Comedy in Buster Keaton’s The General – Lisa Trahair

Chapter 10. Bad Cops – Todd McGowan

Section 4 – Performing Comedy

Chapter 11. Richard Pryor, the Conedian – Alexi Kukuljevic

Chapter 12. Comedy as Performance – Gregor Moder

Chapter 13. After Death Comes Humour. On the Poetics of Alexander Vvedensky – Keti Chukhrov

Chapter 14. Asking for It. An exchange – Cassandra Seltman and Vanessa Place 

Chapter 15. Of Organic Comedies. Interview with Romeo Castellucci – Jamila M.H. Mascat

Notes on Contributors

Abstracts

Index

O autorze

Jamila M. H. Mascat is Lecturer in Gender and Postcolonial Studies at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. She is the author of Hegel in Jena: The Critique of Abstraction (in Italian, 2011) and currently preparing a book on partisanship and political engagement. 

Gregor Moder is Assistant Professor at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, where he teaches philosophy of art. He is the author of Comic Love: Shakespeare, Hegel, Lacan (in Slovene, 2016) and of Hegel and Spinoza: Substance and Negativity (2017).