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This book looks at the political aspects of comedy and how humor is shaped by unconscious social and psychological factors within a particular cultural and hist

In what ways is comedy subversive? This vital new book critically considers the importance of comedy in challenging and redefining our relations to race and rac

Cutting-edge philosophers, psychoanalysts, literary theorists, and scholars use Freud and Lacan to shed light on laughter, humor, and the comic. Bringing togeth

What relevance has comedy for the global crises of late-modernity and the theological critique thereof? Coming out of the experience of war, a generation of mod

This is a fascinating and beautifully written book on what philosophy can tell us about humour and about what it is to be human. It will fascinate and intrigue