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    Prostrating before adrasteia: Comedy, philosophy, and “one’s own” in republic V.Sonja Tanner - 2016 - Angelaki 21 (3):35-53.
    Comedy and philosophy have too often been thought immiscible, a tradition supported by a solemn reading of philosophers such as Plato. A closer look at Plato – and specifically at what may be his most familiar dialogue – the Republic, suggests just the contrary. Far from immiscible, comedy and philosophy are entwined in ways that are mutually illuminating. I argue that a joke in Book V reveals the self-forgetting involved in founding the city in speech, and so illustrates (...)
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    Philosophy and Comedy: Aristophanes, Logos, and Eros.Bernard Freydberg - 2008 - Indiana University Press.
    Reveals comedy's contributions to the philosophical enterprise.
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    Comedy and Tragedy and Philosophy in the Symposium.Edmund L. Erde - 1976 - Southwestern Journal of Philosophy 7 (1):161-167.
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    Comedy, Malice, and Philosophy in Plato’s Philebus.James Lewis Wood - 2007 - Ancient Philosophy 27 (1):77-94.
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    Comedy, Malice, and Philosophy in Plato’s Philebus.James Lewis Wood - 2007 - Ancient Philosophy 27 (1):77-94.
  6. Teaching the Divine Comedy's Understanding of Philosophy.Jason Aleksander - 2012 - Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture 13 (1):67-76.
    This essay discusses five main topoi in the Divine Comedy through which teachers might encourage students to explore the question of the Divine Comedy’s treatment of philosophy. These topoi are: (1) The Divine Comedy’s representations in Inferno of noble pagans who are allegorically or historically associated with philosophy or natural reason; (2) its treatment of the relationship between faith and reason and that relationship’s consequences for the text’s understanding of the respective authoritativeness of theology and philosophy; (3) (...)
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    Comedy and Finitude: Displacing the Tragic‐Heroic Paradigm in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis.Simon Critchley - 1999 - Constellations 6 (1):108-122.
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    The comedy of philosophy.Moses Léon - 1937 - London,: G. P. Putnam's sons.
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  9. The Comedy of Philosophy: Sense and Nonsense in Early Cinematic Slapstick.Lisa Trahair - 2012 - SUNY Press.
    Melds philosophical analysis with early cinematic history to develop a fresh theory of the notion of comedy.
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    Philosophy, Comedy, and History.C. Allen Speight - 2021 - In Mark Alznauer (ed.), Hegel on tragedy and comedy: new essays. Albany: State University of New York Press. pp. 265-280.
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  11. Philosophy, comedy, and history : Hegel's Aristophanic modernity.Allen Speight - 2021 - In Mark Alznauer (ed.), Hegel on tragedy and comedy: new essays. Albany: State University of New York Press.
     
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  12. The comedy of philosophy.Dmitri Nikulin - 2009 - In Katie Terezakis (ed.), Engaging Agnes Heller: A Critical Companion. Lexington Books. pp. 167.
     
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    The comedy of philosophy: Bataille, Hegel and Derrida.Lisa Trahair - 2001 - Angelaki 6 (3):155 – 169.
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    The Whole Comedy and Tragedy of Philosophy: On Aristophanes’ Speech in Plato’s Symposium.Drew A. Hyland - 2013 - Norsk Filosofisk Tidsskrift 48 (1):6-18.
    In this essay, I approach the question of comedy and tragedy, as well as their relation to philosophy, in the Platonic dialogues through a focus on the comic poet Aristophanes’ speech in Plato’s Symposium. I elicit both the positive contribution of the poet’s speech as well as its limitations for an understanding of comedy, tragedy, and philosophy.
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    Why So Serious: On Philosophy and Comedy.Russell Ford (ed.) - 2017 - New York, NY, USA: Routledge.
    The Western philosophical tradition has shown a marked and perennial fondness for tragedy. From Plato and Aristotle, through the development of Christianity, to German idealism, and even to contemporary reflections on the murderous violence of the twentieth century, philosophy has repeatedly looked to tragedy for resources to make suffering, grief, and death thinkable. But what if by showing such a preference for tragedy, philosophical thought has unwittingly and unknowingly aligned itself with a form of thinking that accepts human suffering and (...)
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    Laughter, Humor, and Comedy in Ancient Philosophy.Pierre Destrée & Franco V. Trivigno (eds.) - 2019 - New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
    "Ancient philosophers were very interested in the themes of laughter, humor and comedy. They theorized about laughter and its causes, moralized about the appropriate uses of humor and what it is appropriate to laugh at, and wrote treaties on comedic composition. Further, they were often merciless in ridiculing their opponents' positions, often borrowing comedic devices and techniques from comic poetry and drama to do so. The volume is organized around three themes that were important for ancient philosophers: the psychology (...)
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    The Comedy of Hegel and the Trauerspiel of Modern Philosophy.Gillian Rose - 1994 - Hegel Bulletin 15 (1):14-22.
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    What's the Deal with Sophists? Critical Thought and Humor in Ancient Philosophy and Contemporary Comedy.Jeremy Fogel - 2023 - The Philosophy of Humor Yearbook 4 (1):187-216.
    While committed to the argumentative and reasoned discourse recognizable in the work of contemporary professional philosophers, the actual practice that both Socrates and Diogenes routinely engaged in was in many ways more similar to stand-up and other forms of contemporary performative comedy. This paper analyzes the commonalities between Socrates’s and Diogenes's public philosophizing in Ancient Greece and performative comedy in the contemporary world, and emphasizes the subversive rhetorical efficiency and skeptical significance of public irony for their audiences. The (...)
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    WHY SO SERIOUS?: on philosophy and comedy.Russell Ford - 2016 - Angelaki 21 (3):1-11.
    The Western philosophical tradition shows a marked fondness for tragedy. From Plato and Aristotle, through German idealism, to contemporary reflections on the murderous violence of the twentieth century, philosophy has often looked to tragedy for resources to make suffering, grief, and death thinkable. But what if, in showing this preference, philosophical thought has unwittingly and unknowingly aligned itself with a form of thinking that accepts injustice without protest? What if tragedy, and the philosophical thinking that mobilizes it, gives a tacit (...)
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    Recent continental philosophy and comedy.Bernard Freydberg - 2010 - Philosophy Compass 5 (7):516-524.
    Recently, the philosophical significance of comedy has attracted a great deal of attention from Continental philosophers, including this author. After venturing an account for this sudden interest, this paper surveys six contemporary books that take different views of this phenomenon. This fertile field will surely benefit from the contributions and responses of Philosophy Compass' readers.
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    The High Comedy of Philosophy.Alfred H. Lloyd - 1913 - The Monist 23 (4):523-542.
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    The Comic Agon-Comedy and Philosophy.Peter Murphy - 2006 - Budhi: A Journal of Ideas and Culture 10 (3):61-77.
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  23. All Too Human: Humor, Comedy, and Laughter in 19th-Century Philosophy.Allen Speight (ed.) - 2018 - Dordrecht:
     
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    The Comedy of Patricide (or: A Passing Sense of Manliness).Omar Rivera - 2007 - Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 11 (2):353-369.
    This paper is an investigation of the role of comedy in philosophical thinking, particularly of how comedy reveals the erotic dimension of philosophical thinking.In the first half of the paper, I show that the relation between comedy and Eros is a powerful means to understand in what way philosophy is not technē. Philosophy in its erotic and comedic character is, rather, engaged with an appearing of things as ‘birthed’ or ‘living.’ In the second part of the paper, (...)
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    Comedy Incarnate: Buster Keaton, Physical Humor, and Bodily Coping.Noël Carroll - 2007 - Wiley-Blackwell.
    In _Comedy Incarnate_, Noël Carroll surveys the characteristics of Buster Keaton’s unique visual style, to reveal the distinctive experience of watching Keaton’s films. Bold and provocative thesis written by one of America’s foremost film theorists Takes a unique look at the philosophies behind Keaton’s style Weighs visual elements over narrative form in the analysis of the Keaton’s work Provides a fresh vantage point for analysis of film and comedy itself.
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    The Immortal Comedy: The Comic Phenomenon in Art, Literature, and Life.Agnes Heller - 2005 - Lexington Books.
    This book is the first attempt to think philosophically about the comic phenomenon in literature, art, and life. Working across a substantial collection of comic works author Agnes Heller makes seminal observations on the comic in the work of both classical and contemporary figures. Whether she's discussing Shakespeare, Kafka, Rabelais, or the paintings of Brueghel and Daumier Heller's Immortal Comedy makes a characteristic contribution to modern thought across the humanities.
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    Hegelian Comedy.Martin Donougho - 2016 - Philosophy and Rhetoric 49 (2):196-220.
    Dying is easy; comedy is hard. Comedy is sovereign. I begin with an excerpt from Bertolt Brecht’s Fugitive Conversations. Ziffel, a physicist, is chatting with the worker Kalle: For humor, I always think of the philosopher Hegel.... He had the makings of one of the greatest humorists among the philosophers.... I read his book The Great Logic once, when I had rheumatism and couldn’t move. It’s one of the greatest humorous works of world literature. It treats of the (...)
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    Shaun May (2016) A Philosophy of Comedy on Stage and Screen: You Have to Be There.Cameron Moneo - 2018 - Film-Philosophy 22 (1):134-137.
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    Shaun May (2016) A Philosophy of Comedy on Stage and Screen: You Have to Be There.Cameron Moneo - 2018 - Film-Philosophy 22 (2):309-312.
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    Chapter One. Tragedy, Comedy, and Philosophy in Antiquity.Neil G. Robertson & David Peddle - 2003 - In Neil G. Robertson & David Peddle (eds.), Philosophy and Freedom the Legacy of James Doull. University of Toronto Press. pp. 21-54.
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    Serious Comedy: The Philosophical and Theological Significance of Tragic and Comic Writing in the Western Tradition.Patrick Downey - 2000 - Lexington Books.
    Patrick Downey finds comedy at the heart of the Western philosophical and theological tradition. In Serious Comedy Downey tracks tragedy and comedy from the beginning of Western thought to the twentieth century, beginning with an in-depth examination of Aristotle and three Platonic dialogues: the Republic, the Phaedrus, and the Symposium. In the book's second section Downey argues that the Bible is at heart a comedic narrative and analyzes the philosophical and theological implications of this comedy. In (...)
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    Comedy Incarnate: Buster Keaton, Physical Humor, and Bodily Coping.Noël Carroll - 2007 - Wiley-Blackwell.
    In _Comedy Incarnate_, Noël Carroll surveys the characteristics of Buster Keaton’s unique visual style, to reveal the distinctive experience of watching Keaton’s films. Bold and provocative thesis written by one of America’s foremost film theorists Takes a unique look at the philosophies behind Keaton’s style Weighs visual elements over narrative form in the analysis of the Keaton’s work Provides a fresh vantage point for analysis of film and comedy itself.
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    Comedy Incarnate: Buster Keaton, Physical Humor, and Bodily Coping.Noël Carroll - 2007 - Wiley-Blackwell.
    In _Comedy Incarnate_, Noël Carroll surveys the characteristics of Buster Keaton’s unique visual style, to reveal the distinctive experience of watching Keaton’s films. Bold and provocative thesis written by one of America’s foremost film theorists Takes a unique look at the philosophies behind Keaton’s style Weighs visual elements over narrative form in the analysis of the Keaton’s work Provides a fresh vantage point for analysis of film and comedy itself.
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    Comedy Incarnate: Buster Keaton, Physical Humor, and Bodily Coping.NoË Carroll & L. - 2007 - Wiley-Blackwell.
    In Comedy Incarnate, Noël Carroll surveys the characteristics of Buster Keaton’s unique visual style, to reveal the distinctive experience of watching Keaton’s films. Bold and provocative thesis written by one of America’s foremost film theorists Takes a unique look at the philosophies behind Keaton’s style Weighs visual elements over narrative form in the analysis of the Keaton’s work Provides a fresh vantage point for analysis of film and comedy itself.
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    Comedy Incarnate: Buster Keaton, Physical Humor, and Bodily Coping.NoË Carroll & L. - 2008 - Wiley-Blackwell.
    In Comedy Incarnate, Noël Carroll surveys the characteristics of Buster Keaton’s unique visual style, to reveal the distinctive experience of watching Keaton’s films. Bold and provocative thesis written by one of America’s foremost film theorists Takes a unique look at the philosophies behind Keaton’s style Weighs visual elements over narrative form in the analysis of the Keaton’s work Provides a fresh vantage point for analysis of film and comedy itself.
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    The comedy of mind: philosophers stoned, or the pursuit of wisdom.Rupert D. V. Glasgow - 1999 - Lanham: University Press of America.
    Although its subject is the relationship between philosophy and comedy, this essay is neither flippant nor nihilistic. It instead approaches philosophy through themes borrowed from comedy, including chapters on inversion, paradox, madness, nonsense, and the distinction between appearance and reality. Beyond his authorship of two previous books on theories of comedy (Madness, Masks, and Laughter and Split Down the Sides), Glasgow's credentials are not stated. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
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    Science and the Human Comedy. Natural Philosophy in French Literature from Rabelais to MaupertuisHarcourt Brown.Robert J. Ellrich - 1977 - Isis 68 (3):458-460.
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    Hearkening to Thalia: Toward the Rebirth of Comedy in Continental Philosophy.Bernard Freydberg - 2009 - Research in Phenomenology 39 (3):401-415.
    This paper discloses and furthers the rebirth of comedy in Continental philosophy in three stages. The first treats Greek comedy, bringing forth the comic contours in Plato and exploring the philosophical content of Aristophanic comedy. The second examines certain German encounters with comedy, from the staid Wieland translations of Aristophanes through the thoughtful discussions of Schiller, Hegel, and Nietzsche. The third investigates twentieth-century American comedy and its connection to American Continental philosophy, and includes a close (...)
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    The Comedy of Patricide (or: A Passing Sense of Manliness).Omar Rivera - 2007 - Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 11 (2):353-369.
    This paper is an investigation of the role of comedy in philosophical thinking, particularly of how comedy reveals the erotic dimension of philosophical thinking.In the first half of the paper, I show that the relation between comedy and Eros is a powerful means to understand in what way philosophy is not technē. Philosophy in its erotic and comedic character is, rather, engaged with an appearing of things as ‘birthed’ or ‘living.’ In the second part of the paper, (...)
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    All Too Human: Laughter, Humor, and Comedy in Nineteenth-Century Philosophy.Lydia L. Moland (ed.) - 2018 - Cham: Springer.
    This book offers an analysis of humor, comedy, and laughter as philosophical topics in the 19th Century. It traces the introduction of humor as a new aesthetic category inspired by Laurence Sterne’s "Tristram Shandy" and shows Sterne’s deep influence on German aesthetic theorists of this period. Through differentiating humor from comedy, the book suggests important distinctions within the aesthetic philosophies of G.W.F. Hegel, Karl Solger, and Jean Paul Richter. The book links Kant’s underdeveloped incongruity theory of laughter to (...)
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    Comedy, Chaos, and Casuistry: Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia.S. Ronald H. Mckinney - 2003 - Philosophy Today 47 (4):392-403.
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  42. The Benefits of Comedy: Teaching Ethics Through Shared Laughter.Christine James - 2005 - Academic Exchange Extra (April).
    Over the last three years I have been fortunate to teach an unusual class, one that provides an academic background in ethical and social and political theory using the medium of comedy. I have taught the class at two schools, a private liberal arts college in western Pennsylvania and a public regional state university in southern Georgia. While the schools vary widely in a number of ways, there are characteristics that the students share: the school in Pennsylvania had a (...)
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    Slipping on Banana Peels, Tumbling into Wells: Philosophy and Comedy.Paul A. Kottman - 2008 - Diacritics 38 (4):3-14.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Slipping on Banana Peels, Tumbling into WellsPhilosophy and ComedyPaul A. Kottman (bio)Alenka Zupančič. The Odd One In: On Comedy. Cambridge, MA: MIT P, 2008.[T]he philosopher... is the jest, not only of Thracian handmaids but of the general herd, tumbling into wells and every sort of disaster through his inexperience [hupo apeirias].—Plato, Theaetetus 174cWhy stop philosophy’s most precious intrinsic comedy when it comes to comedy?—Alenka Zupančič, The (...)
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    Divine Comedies: Post-Theology and Laughter in the Films of Bruno Dumont.Chelsea Birks & Lisa Coulthard - 2019 - Film-Philosophy 23 (3):247-263.
    The films of Bruno Dumont are tied to unwatchability, austerity, and a post-theological seriousness. Recently, however, Dumont has taken a surprising turn towards comedy; and yet these comedies are not without the post-theological despair that characterizes his earlier films. Taking Dumont's comedy seriously, this article frames Dumont's comedic turn not as a deviation but rather as a realignment that requires retroactive reconsideration of his oeuvre's post-theological orientation. We interrogate the philosophical implications of laughter in Dumont's work and argue (...)
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    Cliquey comedy.Mark Vernon - 2007 - The Philosophers' Magazine 38:90-90.
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    ‘I Knew Jean-Paul Sartre’: Philosophy of education as comedy.Morwenna Griffiths & Michael A. Peters - 2014 - Educational Philosophy and Theory 46 (2):1-16.
    Ludwig Wittgenstein suggests that ?A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes?. The idea for this dialogue comes from a conversation that Michael Peters and Morwenna Griffiths had at the Philosophy of Education of Great Britain annual meeting at the University of Oxford, 2011. It was sparked by an account of an assessment of a piece of work where one of the external examiners unexpectedly exclaimed ?I knew Jean-Paul Sartre?, trying to trump the discussion. This (...)
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    The Comedy of the Gods in the Iliad.Kenneth R. Seeskin - 1977 - Philosophy and Literature 1 (3):295-306.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Kenneth R. Seeskin THE COMEDY OF THE GODS IN THE ILIAD "... no animai but man ever laughs." Aristotle, De Partibus Animalium, 673a8-9 No reader of the Iliad can fail to be struck by the great extent to which social relations among the gods resemble those which obtain among men. Zeus, the oldest and strongest of the Olympian deities, rules as an absolute monarchor patriarch. The "council" meetings (...)
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    The Uncanonical Dante: The Divine Comedy and Islamic Philosophy.Paul Arthur Cantor - 1996 - Philosophy and Literature 20 (1):138-153.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:The Uncanonical Dante: The Divine Comedy And Islamic PhilosophyPaul A. CantorThe distorted notions of invisible things which Dante and hisrival Milton have idealized, are merely the mask and the mantlein which these great poets walk through eternity enveloped anddisguised. It is a difficult question to determine how far theywere conscious of the distinction which must have subsisted intheir minds between their own creeds and that of the people.Dante (...)
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    A comedy of wisdoms: common sense and beyond.Alexander von Erdely - 2010 - Berlin: ATE.
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    Comedy as dissonant rhetoric.Simon Lambek - 2023 - Philosophy and Social Criticism 49 (9):1107-1127.
    This article considers the normative and critical value of popular comedy. I begin by assembling and evaluating a range of political theory literature on comedy. I argue that popular comedy can be conducive to both critical and transformative democratic effects, but that these effects are contingent on the way comedic performances are received by audiences. I illustrate this by means of a case study of a comedic climate change ‘debate’ from the television show, Last Week Tonight. Drawing (...)
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