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Recent Continental Philosophy and Comedy: Comic Overflow
Author(s) -
Freydberg Bernard
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
philosophy compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.973
H-Index - 25
ISSN - 1747-9991
DOI - 10.1111/j.1747-9991.2010.00309.x
Subject(s) - comedy , comics , phenomenon , field (mathematics) , continental philosophy , epistemology , philosophy , literature , history , art , mathematics , pure mathematics
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.