Only a Joke Can Save Us - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Only a Joke Can Save Us write by Todd McGowan. This book was released on 2017-09-15. Only a Joke Can Save Us available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Only a Joke Can Save Us presents an innovative and comprehensive theory of comedy. Using a wealth of examples from high and popular culture and with careful attention to the treatment of humor in philosophy, Todd McGowan locates the universal source of comedy in the interplay of the opposing concepts lack and excess. After reviewing the treatment of comedy in the work of philosophers as varied as Aristotle, G. W. F. Hegel, Sigmund Freud, Henri Bergson, and Alenka Zupancic, McGowan, working in a psychoanalytic framework, demonstrates that comedy results from the deployment of lack and excess, whether in contrast, juxtaposition, or interplay. Illustrating the power and flexibility of this framework with analyses of films ranging from Buster Keaton and Marx Brothers classics to Dr. Strangelove and Groundhog Day, McGowan shows how humor can reveal gaps in being and gaps in social order. Scholarly yet lively and readable, Only a Joke Can Save Us is a groundbreaking examination of the enigmatic yet endlessly fascinating experience of humor and comedy.
Only One Thing Can Save Us
Only One Thing Can Save Us - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Only One Thing Can Save Us write by Thomas Geoghegan. This book was released on 2014. Only One Thing Can Save Us available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Is labor's day over or is this the big moment? Acclaimed author Geoghegan asserts that only a new kind of labor movement can help the country switch course toward a future that is fair and prosperous for all Americans.
"Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us!"
"Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us!" - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook "Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us!" write by Ralph Nader. This book was released on 2011-01-04. "Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us!" available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "In the cozy den of the large but modest house in Omaha where he has lived since he started on his first billion, Warren Buffett watched the horrors of Hurricane Katrina unfold on television in early September 2005. . . . On the fourth day, he beheld in disbelief the paralysis of local, state, and federal authorities unable to commence basic operations of rescue and sustenance, not just in New Orleans, but in towns and villages all along the Gulf Coast. . . He knew exactly what he had to do. . ." So begins the vivid fictional account by political activist and bestselling author Ralph Nader that answers the question, "What if?" What if a cadre of superrich individuals tried to become a driving force in America to organize and institutionalize the interests of the citizens of this troubled nation? What if some of America's most powerful individuals decided it was time to fix our government and return the power to the people? What if they focused their power on unionizing Wal-Mart? What if a national political party were formed with the sole purpose of advancing clean elections? What if these seventeen superrich individuals decided to galvanize a movement for alternative forms of energy that will effectively clean up the environment? What if together they took on corporate goliaths and Congress to provide the necessities of life and advance the solutions so long left on the shelf by an avaricious oligarchy? What could happen? This extraordinary story, written by the author who knows the most about citizen action, returns us to the literature of American social movements—to Edward Bellamy, to Upton Sinclair, to John Steinbeck, to Stephen Crane—reminding us in the process that changing the body politic of America starts with imagination.
The Odd One In
The Odd One In - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Odd One In write by Alenka Zupancic. This book was released on 2008-02-08. The Odd One In available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A Lacanian look at how comedy might come to philosophy's rescue, with examples ranging from Hegel and Molière to George W. Bush and Borat. Why philosophize about comedy? What is the use of investigating the comical from philosophical and psychoanalytic perspectives? In The Odd One In, Alenka Zupančič considers how philosophy and psychoanalysis can help us understand the movement and the logic involved in the practice of comedy, and how comedy can help philosophy and psychoanalysis recognize some of the crucial mechanisms and vicissitudes of what is called humanity. Comedy by its nature is difficult to pin down with concepts and definitions, but as artistic form and social practice comedy is a mode of tarrying with a foreign object—of including the exception. Philosophy's relationship to comedy, Zupančič writes, is not exactly a simple story (and indeed includes some elements of comedy). It could begin with the lost book of Aristotle's Poetics, which discussed comedy and laughter (and was made famous by Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose). But Zupančič draws on a whole range of philosophers and exemplars of comedy, from Aristophanes, Molière, Hegel, Freud, and Lacan to George W. Bush and Borat. She distinguishes incisively between comedy and ideologically imposed, “naturalized” cheerfulness. Real, subversive comedy thrives on the short circuits that establish an immediate connection between heterogeneous orders. Zupančič examines the mechanisms and processes by which comedy lets the odd one in.
This Book Is Overdue!
This Book Is Overdue! - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook This Book Is Overdue! write by Marilyn Johnson. This book was released on 2010-02-02. This Book Is Overdue! available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A spirited exploration of libraries' evolution from fusty brick-and-mortar institutions to fluid virtual environments.
