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Truth and the Comedic Art

2012-02-01 Philosophy
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Release : 2012-02-01
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis Truth and the Comedic Art by : Michael Gelven

Download or read book Truth and the Comedic Art written by Michael Gelven. This book was released on 2012-02-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditional philosophy places a singular emphasis on tragedy, acting under the assumption that tragedy is more profound than comedy. Gelven argues that comedy deserves equal if not greater attention from philosophy. Through the interpretative readings and concrete analysis of three classical works, Gelven shows that comedy provides an access to truth unavailable by any other means. Silvius in Shakespeares's As You Like It, Cherubino in Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro, and Lord Goring in Wilde's An Ideal Husband are examined in terms of why and how they are comic, along with how and why they are seen both as fools and yet as graced. Gelven finds that in revealing the spirit of graced folly, comedy teaches us about our own essence, the fundamental nature of our finitude. This will undoubtedly be of considerable importance not only to philosophical aestheticians or literary critics, but also for those seeking to understand the nature of truth itself.

The demystification of truth

2004 Comedians
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Release : 2004
Genre : Comedians
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Book Synopsis The demystification of truth by : William Hunter McClamrock

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Faithful Ruslan

2011-09-27 Fiction
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Release : 2011-09-27
Genre : Fiction
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Book Synopsis Faithful Ruslan by : Georgi Vladimov

Download or read book Faithful Ruslan written by Georgi Vladimov. This book was released on 2011-09-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unavailable for twenty years, this harrowing allegory of obedience to authority is esteemed as “one of the defining literary texts of the post-Stalin period.” (The Guardian) Set in a remote Siberian depot immediately following the demolition of one of the gulag’s notorious camps and the emancipation of its prisoners, Faithful Ruslan is an embittered cri de coeur from a writer whose circumstances obliged him to resist the violence of arbitrary power. “Every writer who writes anything in this country is made to feel he has committed a crime,” Georgi Vladimov said. Dissident, he said, is a word that “they force on you.” His mother, a victim of Stalin’s anti-Semitic policy, had been interred for two years in one of the camps from which Vladimov derived the wrenching detail of Faithful Ruslan. The novel circulated in samizdat for more than a decade, often attributed to Solzhenitsyn, before its publication in the West led to Vladimov’s harassment and exile. A starving stray, tortured and abandoned by the godlike “Master” whom he has unconditionally loved, Ruslan and his cadre of fellow guard dogs dutifully wait for the arrival of new prisoners—but the unexpected arrival of a work party provokes a climactic bloodletting. Fashioned from the perceptions of an uncomprehending animal, Vladimov’s insistently ironic indictment of the gulag spirals to encompass all of Man’s inexplicable cruelty.

Why So Serious: On Philosophy and Comedy

2018-12-07 Philosophy
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Release : 2018-12-07
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Book Synopsis Why So Serious: On Philosophy and Comedy by : Russell Ford

Download or read book Why So Serious: On Philosophy and Comedy written by Russell Ford. This book was released on 2018-12-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 showing a preference for tragedy, philosophical thought has unwittingly and unknowingly aligned itself with a form of thinking that accepts injustice without protest? This collection explores possibilities for philosophical thinking that refuses the tragic model of thought, and turns instead to its often-overlooked companion: comedy. Comprising of a series of experiments ranging across the philosophical tradition, the essays in this volume propose to break, or at least suspend, the use of tragedy as an index of truth and philosophical worth. Instead, they explore new conceptions of solidarity, sympathy, critique, and justice. In addition, the essays collected here provide ample reason to believe that philosophical thinking, aligned with comedy, is capable of important and original insights, discoveries, and creations. The prejudicial acceptance of tragic seriousness only impoverishes the life of thought; it can be rejuvenated and renewed by laughter and the comic. This book was originally published as a special issue of Angelaki.

Caricature and Other Comic Art in All Times and Many Lands

1877 Caricature
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Release : 1877
Genre : Caricature
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Book Synopsis Caricature and Other Comic Art in All Times and Many Lands by : James Parton

Download or read book Caricature and Other Comic Art in All Times and Many Lands written by James Parton. This book was released on 1877. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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