![]() Comedy doesn’t simply reveal the hidden truth of society but rather exposes the connections that everyday life keeps at a distance. Theorizing comedy in this way enables us to grasp what comedy reveals about subjects and the society that they inhabit. If we experience lack or excess in isolation, there is no comedy, but comedy always erupts when they intersect. The argument of the book is the comedy occurs in the necessarily fleeting moments when oppositions-specifically the opposition between lack and excess-collide. ![]() The theory of comedy developed in Only a Joke Can Save Us takes this difficulty of theorizing comedy as its point of departure. There is an immediacy associated with comedy that renders it difficult to translate into other cultures or across long periods of time, and it is this immediacy that presents a barrier to making sense of it. Though there have been several notable philosophies of comedy (like Sigmund Freud’s or Henri Bergson’s), comedy seems resistant to theorizing in a way that tragedy is not. ![]() Comedy has traditionally proven difficult to theorize.
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