Odd One In On Comedy

Name: Odd One In On Comedy
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ISBN: 9780262740319

ISBN-10: 0262740311

ISBN-13: 9780262740319

Edition: 2008

Authors: Alenka Zupancic

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Why philosophize about comedy? What is the use of investigating the comical from philosophical and psychoanalytic perspectives? In "The Odd One In," Alenka Zupancic 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, Zupancic writes, is not exactly a…

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List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 2/8/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.35" wide x 7.95" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.638



Series Foreword


Introduction



The Concrete Universal


The Absolute on the Couch


The Universal-at-Work


Physics of the Infinite against Metaphysics of the Finite



Figures of Comedy


The Ego and the It


The Ego and the Ego


The other and the Other



Conceptualizations


Another Turn of the Bergsonian Screw


Structural Dynamics and Temporality of the Comical


Repetition


(Essential) Appendix: The Phallus


Enjoyment ex machina


Wozu Phallus in durftiger Zeit?


Concluding Remarks


Notes


Bibliography