Democracy, Freedom and Laughter: Hegelian Comedy in the Coens’ Hail, Caesar!

The European Legacy 24 (7-8):840-853 (2019)
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ABSTRACTIn his Lectures on Aesthetics, Hegel reasons that comedy responds to the fact that democratic ideals become a subject for a joke when enacted: progressive values such as free speech enable...

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