Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 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: Ellison and the Democratic Politics of Black Laughter
- 4 The Best Medicine? Repoliticising Laughter for Contemporary Feminist and Queer Politics
- The End of Laughter? Gelopolitics and the New Agelasty
- References
- Index
Index
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 November 2024
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 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: Ellison and the Democratic Politics of Black Laughter
- 4 The Best Medicine? Repoliticising Laughter for Contemporary Feminist and Queer Politics
- The End of Laughter? Gelopolitics and the New Agelasty
- References
- Index
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Laughter as PoliticsCritical Theory in an Age of Hilarity, pp. 198 - 215Publisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2022