Laughter as Politics: Critical Theory in an Age of Hilarity by Patrick Giamario

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Explores the role that laughter plays in constructing, preserving and transforming contemporary social and political life

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Laughter As Politics offers a novel account of laughter's role in contemporary political life. A world awash in hilarity has rendered the traditional philosophical question of whether laughter should play a role in politics obsolete. Faced with the laughter generated by late-night comedians, Twitter trolls, and reality TV presidents, we must instead trace how laughter operates politically. Only an account of gelopolitics - that is, of the concrete practices of and regulations around laughter (gels [γλως]) that shape and reshape a political community - can reveal the possibilities and dangers of the current moment. Through investigations of the accounts of laughter offered by Thomas Hobbes, Theodor Adorno, Ralph Ellison, and feminist and queer thinkers like Hlne Cixous and Judith Butler, this book develops a critical theory of laughter that illuminates laughter as a privileged site wherein the contemporary social order constructs, preserves, and transforms itself politically.

Author Biography

Patrick Giamario, Assistant Professor in Political Science, University of North Carolina, Greensboro.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments; Introducing Gelopolitics; 1 The Laughing Body Politic: The Counter/sovereign Politics of Hobbes's Theory of Laughter; 2 Beyond A/gelasty: Adorno's Critical Theory of Laughter; 3 Over a Barrel: Ralph Ellison and the Democratic Politics of Black Laughter; 4 The Best Medicine? Re-politicizing Laughter for Contemporary; Feminist and Queer Politics; The End of Laughter? Gelopolitics and the New Agelasty; Works Cited.

Review

Laughter as Politics is an exemplary work of critical political theory. Patrick T. Giamario develops a critique of laughter, which neither denounces nor affirms, but instead shows how laughter is shaped by power and how power is unleashed in laughter, how laughter destabilizes the opposition between logos and phn" and exposes the limits of liberalism, how laughter upholds a social order and sustains the imagination of something beyond it. Giamario sets aside the question of whether we should be laughing, at our political leaders or their followers, so that he can ask the more difficult question of what we are doing when we laugh and how our laughter shapes and is shaped by politics. His answers, drawing from Thomas Hobbes, Theodor Adorno, Ralph Ellison, and a number of contemporary feminist and queer theorists, are sophisticated and insightful.--Robyn Marasco, CUNY

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Laughter as Politicsis an exemplary work of critical political theory. Patrick T. Giamario develops a critique of laughter, which neither denounces nor affirms, but instead shows how laughter is shaped by power and how power is unleashed in laughter, how laughter destabilizes the opposition between logos and ph?n? and exposes the limits of liberalism, how laughter upholds a social order and sustains the imagination of something beyond it. Giamario sets aside the question of whether we should be laughing, at our political leaders or their followers, so that he can ask the more difficult question of what we are doing when we laugh and how our laughter shapes and is shaped by politics. His answers, drawing from Thomas Hobbes, Theodor Adorno, Ralph Ellison, and a number of contemporary feminist and queer theorists, are sophisticated and insightful.??

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Explores the role that laughter plays in constructing, preserving and transforming contemporary social and political life

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Explores the role that laughter plays in constructing, preserving and transforming contemporary social and political life Provides the first full-length study of the politics of laughter Rejects the traditional, normative question of whether laughter should play a role in politics in favour of a new, critical question of how laughter operates politically Advances a critical theory of laughter that challenges the conventional wisdom that laughter is a naturally emancipatory experience Critically re-reads the accounts of laughter offered by Thomas Hobbes, Theodor Adorno, Ralph Ellison and feminist and queer theorists such as H

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Provides the first full-length study of the politics of laughter Rejects the traditional, normative question of whether laughter should play a role in politics in favour of a new, critical question of how laughter operates politically Advances a critical theory of laughter that challenges the conventional wisdom that laughter is a naturally emancipatory experience Critically re-reads the accounts of laughter offered by Thomas Hobbes, Theodor Adorno, Ralph Ellison and feminist and queer theorists such as H

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Explores the role that laughter plays in constructing, preserving and transforming contemporary social and political life Provides the first full-length study of the politics of laughter Rejects the traditional, normative question of whether laughter should play a role in politics in favour of a new, critical question of how laughter operates politically Advances a critical theory of laughter that challenges the conventional wisdom that laughter is a naturally emancipatory experience

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May be suitable for courses in political theory and political philosophy

Details ISBN1474491545 Publisher Edinburgh University Press Year 2022 ISBN-10 1474491545 ISBN-13 9781474491549 Format Hardcover Pages 212 Series Taking on the Political Imprint Edinburgh University Press Place of Publication Edinburgh Country of Publication United Kingdom Author Patrick Giamario AU Release Date 2022-03-17 NZ Release Date 2022-03-17 Publication Date 2022-03-17 UK Release Date 2022-03-17 Subtitle Critical Theory in an Age of Hilarity Edited by Johanna Spanke Birth 1938 Affiliation Winchester College, UK Position Classics Teacher Qualifications R.N., B.S.N., Ocn DEWEY 306.2 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education We've got this

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