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Item specifics
- Condition
- Subtitle
- Critical Theory in an Age of Hilarity
- EAN
- 9781474491549
- ISBN
- 9781474491549
- Release Year
- 2022
- Book Title
- Laughter As Politics : Critical Theory in an Age of Hilarity
- Item Height
- 234mm
- Title
- Laughter as Politics
- Genre
- Political Science, Humor
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- GB
- Release Date
- 03/17/2022
- Publication Year
- 2022
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, Incorporated
- Item Length
- 9.2 in
- Topic
- Topic / Politics, General
- Item Width
- 6.1 in
- Number of Pages
- 212 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
1474491545
ISBN-13
9781474491549
eBay Product ID (ePID)
21057267433
Product Key Features
Book Title
Laughter As Politics : Critical Theory in an Age of Hilarity
Number of Pages
212 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2022
Topic
Topic / Politics, General
Genre
Political Science, Humor
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2023-512837
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
Laughter as Politics is an exemplary work of critical political theory. Patrick T. Giamario develops a critique of laughter, which neither denounces nor affirms, but instead shows how laughter is shaped by power and how power is unleashed in laughter, how laughter destabilizes the opposition between logos and phone and exposes the limits of liberalism, how laughter upholds a social order and sustains the imagination of something beyond it. Giamario sets aside the question of whether we should be laughing, at our political leaders or their followers, so that he can ask the more difficult question of what we are doing when we laugh and how our laughter shapes and is shaped by politics. His answers, drawing from Thomas Hobbes, Theodor Adorno, Ralph Ellison, and a number of contemporary feminist and queer theorists, are sophisticated and insightful., Laughter as Politicsis an exemplary work of critical political theory. Patrick T. Giamario develops a critique of laughter, which neither denounces nor affirms, but instead shows how laughter is shaped by power and how power is unleashed in laughter, how laughter destabilizes the opposition between logos and ph?n? and exposes the limits of liberalism, how laughter upholds a social order and sustains the imagination of something beyond it. Giamario sets aside the question of whether we should be laughing, at our political leaders or their followers, so that he can ask the more difficult question of what we are doing when we laugh and how our laughter shapes and is shaped by politics. His answers, drawing from Thomas Hobbes, Theodor Adorno, Ralph Ellison, and a number of contemporary feminist and queer theorists, are sophisticated and insightful.??
Dewey Decimal
320.01
Table Of Content
Introducing Gelopolitics The Laughing Body Politic: The Counter/sovereign Politics of Hobbes's Theory of LaughterBeyond A/gelasty: Adorno's Critical Theory of Laughter Over a Barrel: Ralph Ellison and the Democratic Politics of Black LaughterThe Best Medicine? Re-politicizing Laughter for Contemporary Feminist and Queer Politics The End of Laughter? Gelopolitics and the New Agelasty
Synopsis
Explores the role that laughter plays in constructing, preserving and transforming contemporary social and political life, 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.
LC Classification Number
JA75.7
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