Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 700.417
EAN: 9780262740319
ISBN: 0262740311
Label: The MIT Press
Manufacturer: The MIT Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 240
Publication Date: March 31, 2008
Publisher: The MIT Press
Sales Rank: 146421
Studio: The MIT Press

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Product Description:
Why philosophize about comedy? What is the use of investigating the comical from philosophical and psychoanalytic perspectives? In The Odd One In, Alenka Zupančič 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 it is a mode of tarrying with a foreign object—of including the exception. Philosophy's relationship to comedy, Zupančič 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 Zupančič draws on a whole range of philosophers and exemplars of comedy, from Aristophanes, Molière, 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. Zupančič examines the mechanisms and processes by which comedy lets the odd one in.




Rating: - Hegel and Bergson Revisited by Lacan
Thanks to Umberto Eco's best selling novel The Name of the Rose (and the movie based on it), everybody knows about the second book of Aristotle's Poetics, in which the philosopher discussed comedy and laughter, and which is unfortunately lost. From the antiquity onward, philosophers who address the subject of comedy and try to pin it down with concepts and definitions face an impossible task. Everything and its contrary seem to hold true when speaking about comedy, yet the nature of the comical constantly ... Read More

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Rating: - Doesn't look like Lacan, doesn't sound like Lacan, but don't let Zupancic fool you, she is not Lacan!
The last person to do something interesting with Lacan was a French psychoanalyst named Jacques Lacan. What I mean by that is that either a contemporary author simply provides commentary on Lacan's work or they do something so interesting with his conceptual apparatus that the end product is something wholly original, something wholly their own. This new book by Alenka Zupancic achieves the latter.

In The Odd One In, Zupancic uses the likes of Hegel, Freud, Lacan, Deleuze, and Bergson ... Read More

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