Object of Comedy

Jamila M. H. Mascat is Lecturer in Gender and Postcolonial Studies at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. She is the author of Hegel in Jena: The Critique of Abstraction (in Italian, 2011) and currently preparing a book on partisanship and political engagement. Gregor Moder is Assistant Professor at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, where he teaches philosophy of art. He is the author of Comic Love: Shakespeare, Hegel, Lacan (in Slovene, 2016) and of Hegel and Spinoza: Substance and Negativity (2017).

• Section 1 – Comic Philosophy.- Chapter 1. The uncanny and the comic. Freud avec Lubitsch – Mladen Dolar.- Chapter 2. How They Fought – Sandra Laugier.- Chapter 3. Hegel and the Misadventures of Consciousness. On Comedy and Revolutionary Partisanship – Jamila M. H. Mascat.- Chapter 4. The Aborted Object of Comedy & the Birth of the Subject. Socrates and Aristophanes’ Alliance – Rachel Aumiller.- Section 2 – Comic Psychoanalysis.- Chapter 5. The Three Moments of Comedy – Robert Pfaller.- Chapter 6. From Objects of Desire to Objects of Comedy in Chaplin’s Modern Times – Alfie Bown.- Chapter 7. Where Does Dirt Come From? – Alenka Zupančič.- Section 3 – Screening Comedy.- Chapter 8. Seriously Funny: Comedy and Authority in The Boss of it All – Benjamin Noys.- Chapter 9. Stoicism, Causality, Divine Providence and Comedy in Buster Keaton’s The General – Lisa Trahair.- Chapter 10. Bad Cops – Todd McGowan.- Section 4 – Performing Comedy.- Chapter 11. Richard Pryor, the Conedian – Alexi Kukuljevic.- Chapter 12. Comedy as Performance – Gregor Moder.- Chapter 13. After Death Comes Humour. On the Poetics of Alexander Vvedensky – Keti Chukhrov.- Chapter 14. Asking for It. An exchange – Cassandra Seltman and Vanessa Place.- Chapter 15. Of Organic Comedies. Interview with Romeo Castellucci – Jamila M.H. Mascat.