{"product_id":"the-odd-one-in-alenka-zupancic-9780262740319","title":"The Odd One In: On Comedy","description":"\u003cb\u003eA Lacanian look at how comedy might come to philosophy's rescue, with examples ranging from Hegel and Moli re to George W. Bush and Borat.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhy philosophize about comedy? What is the use of investigating the comical from philosophical and psychoanalytic perspectives? In \u003ci\u003eThe Odd One In\u003c\/i\u003e, Alenka Zupančič considers how philosophy and psychoanalysis can help us understand the movement and the logic involved in the practice of comedy, and how comedy can help philosophy and psychoanalysis recognize some of the crucial mechanisms and vicissitudes of what is called humanity. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eComedy by its nature is difficult to pin down with concepts and definitions, but as artistic form and social practice comedy is a mode of tarrying with a foreign object--of including the exception. Philosophy's relationship to comedy, Zupančič writes, is not exactly a simple story (and indeed includes some elements of comedy). It could begin with the lost book of Aristotle's \u003ci\u003ePoetics\u003c\/i\u003e, which discussed comedy and laughter (and was made famous by Umberto Eco's \u003ci\u003eThe Name of the Rose\u003c\/i\u003e). But Zupančič draws on a whole range of philosophers and exemplars of comedy, from Aristophanes, Moli re, Hegel, Freud, and Lacan to George W. Bush and Borat. She distinguishes incisively between comedy and ideologically imposed, \"naturalized\" cheerfulness. Real, subversive comedy thrives on the short circuits that establish an immediate connection between heterogeneous orders. Zupančič examines the mechanisms and processes by which comedy lets the odd one in.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alenka Zupancic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0262740311\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780262740319\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e MIT Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.30w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2008 pg. 73","brand":"Alenka Zupancic","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43990120431871,"sku":"9780262740319","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e837de94-6006-4412-af90-b67f0143467c.jpg?v=1683303111","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-odd-one-in-alenka-zupancic-9780262740319","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}