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Irony in the Age of Empire: Comic Perspectives on Democracy and Freedom

  • Paperback
  • Publisher: Indiana University Press
  • 15.9 x 23.3 x 1.4 cm

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Comedy, from social ridicule to the unruly laughter of the carnival, provides effective tools for reinforcing social patterns of domination as well as weapons for emancipation. In Irony in the Age of Empire, Cynthia Willett asks: What could embody liberation better than laughter? Why do the oppressed laugh? What vision does the comic world prescribe? For Willett, the comic trumps standard liberal accounts of freedom by drawing attention to bodies, affects, and intimate relationships, topics which are usually neglected by political philosophy. Willett's philosophical reflection on comedy issues a powerful challenge to standard conceptions of freedom by proposing a new kind of freedom that is unapologetically feminist, queer, and multiracial. This book provides a wide-ranging, original, thoughtful, and expansive discussion of citizenship, social manners, and political freedom in our world today.
Irony in the Age of Empire: Comic Perspectives on Democracy and Freedom and The Soul of Justice
The Soul of JusticeIrony in the Age of Empire: Comic Perspectives on Democracy and Freedom

  • Title

    Irony in the Age of Empire: Comic Perspectives on Democracy and Freedom

  • Author

    Cynthia Willett

  • Book Format

    Paperback / softback

  • Publisher

    Indiana University Press

  • Published

    July 2008

  • Weight

    291g

  • Dimensions

    15.9 x 23.3 x 1.4 cm

  • ISBN

    9780253219947

  • ISBN-10

    0253219949

  • Eden Code

    4729778

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