Second Nature: Comic Performance and Philosophy

Josephine Gray; Lisa Trahair

doi:10.5771/9781786615107

Summary

This critical intervention in the study of the comic investigates how the comic act is also an expressive and performative act that precedes philosophical conceptualisation. The book puts Bergson, philosophy and the body at the centre of its investigation to explore different aspects of the field, from the history and philosophy of comedy to film and psychoanalysis. The volume develops a theoretical and practice-based framework that will be a valuable resource for students, scholars and practitioners alike in the fields of philosophy, literary studies, theatre and performance studies and comedy studies.

List of Contributors: Caterina Angela Agus, Fred Dalmasso, Lisabeth During, Xavier Escribano, Giovanni Fusetti, Davide Giovanzana, Josephine Gray, María J. Ortega Máñez, Meg Mumford, Jean-Michel Rabaté, Carolyn Shapiro, Lisa Trahair

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Bibliographic data

Edition: 1/2022
Copyright year: 2022
ISBN-Print: 978-1-78661-509-1
ISBN-Online: 978-1-78661-510-7
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 246
Product type: Edited Book

1. Contents No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
3. Introduction No access
Chapter 1 Comedy No access Pages 1 - 16
Chapter 2 The Two Laughters of Lecoq No access Pages 17 - 36
Chapter 3 The Masked Comic Figure in Alain Badiou’s Philosophy No access Pages 37 - 62
Chapter 4 The Body That Laughs and Cries No access Pages 63 - 88
Chapter 5 Valentin, Brecht and Comic Inelasticity No access Pages 89 - 112
Chapter 6 Happiness, Dead and Alive No access Pages 113 - 132
Chapter 7 Living in the Doll House No access Pages 133 - 166
Chapter 8 Trouble in Paradise? No access Pages 167 - 190
Chapter 9 “Only What Is Born Lives” No access Pages 191 - 208
Chapter 10 The Grotesque No access Pages 209 - 232
Index No access Pages 233 - 242
About the Authors No access Pages 243 - 246