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Availability:In StockContributor:Alenka ZupancicSeries:Short CircuitsAudience:Young AdultPublish date:2008-03-01Pages:240
Language:EnglishPublisher:MIT PressISBN-13:9780262740319ISBN-10:262740311UPC:9780262740319Book Category:PhilosophyBook Subcategory:Criticism, History & SurveysSize:7.90 x 5.30 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.6504Product ID:SCCVA7SMGW
The Odd One In: On Comedy
A Lacanian look at how comedy might come to philosophy's rescue, with examples ranging from Hegel and Moli re to George W. Bush and Borat.
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...
Series: Short Circuits
Audience: Young Adult
Language:EnglishPublisher:MIT PressISBN-13:9780262740319ISBN-10:262740311UPC:9780262740319Book Category:PhilosophyBook Subcategory:Criticism, History & SurveysSize:7.90 x 5.30 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.6504Product ID:SCCVA7SMGW
Alenka Zupančič, a Slovenian psychoanalytic theorist and philosopher, teaches at the European Graduate School and is a researcher at the Institute of Philosophy at the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and the Arts. She is the author of The Shortest Shadow: Nietzsche's Philosophy of the Two and The Odd One In: On Comedy, both in the Short Circuits series, published by the MIT Press.
Publisher: MIT Press
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