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Explores the role that laughter plays in constructing, preserving and transforming contemporary social and political life Provides the first full-length study of the politics of laughter Rejects the traditional, normative question of whether laughter should play a role in politics in favour of a new, critical question of how laughter operates politically Advances a critical theory of laughter that challenges the conventional wisdom that laughter is a naturally emancipatory experience Critically re-reads the accounts of laughter offered by Thomas Hobbes, Theodor Adorno, Ralph Ellison and feminist and queer theorists such as H l ne Cixous and Judith Butler Demonstrates the contemporary relevance of these theoretical accounts through analyses of recent events of laughter including the 2010 Jon Stewart Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear"; Jordan Peele's 2017 film Get Out; and Hannah Gadsby's 2018 Netflix special Nanette Offers the theoretical resources to make sense of the political stakes and possibilities of the present Age of Hilarity

Laughter as Politics: Critical Theory in an Age of Hilarity

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Explores the role that laughter plays in constructing, preserving and transforming contemporary social and political life Provides the first full-length... Read more

    Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
    Publication Date: 30/11/2023
    ISBN13: 9781474491556, 978-1474491556
    ISBN10: 1474491553

    Number of Pages: 212

    Non Fiction , Politics, Philosophy & Society

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    Explores the role that laughter plays in constructing, preserving and transforming contemporary social and political life Provides the first full-length study of the politics of laughter Rejects the traditional, normative question of whether laughter should play a role in politics in favour of a new, critical question of how laughter operates politically Advances a critical theory of laughter that challenges the conventional wisdom that laughter is a naturally emancipatory experience Critically re-reads the accounts of laughter offered by Thomas Hobbes, Theodor Adorno, Ralph Ellison and feminist and queer theorists such as H l ne Cixous and Judith Butler Demonstrates the contemporary relevance of these theoretical accounts through analyses of recent events of laughter including the 2010 Jon Stewart Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear"; Jordan Peele's 2017 film Get Out; and Hannah Gadsby's 2018 Netflix special Nanette Offers the theoretical resources to make sense of the political stakes and possibilities of the present Age of Hilarity

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