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Laughter as Politics

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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 [?????]) 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.

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ISBN: 9781474491556
Publication date: 15th November 2023
Author: Patrick T Giamario
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 212 pages
Series: Taking on the Political
Genres: Political science and theory
Social and political philosophy
International relations