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Everyone joins the fight
the dialectic of comic action
pp. 47-68
Abstract
The logic of comedy reveals a rational enterprise meant to promote human well-being. In this chapter, I will examine comedy's own account of the ways in which this is achieved. Comedy is a well-ordered (inter)action that unfolds between a number of actors—as opposed to the isolation of a single subject. It moves through an inevitable complication to a resolution and a good ending. This resolution comes as a result of an intended common action of people who find themselves in undecided situations. As we shall see, comedy presupposes both a "dialogical" narrative and a "dialectical" solution.
Publication details
Published in:
Nikulin Dmitri (2014) Comedy, seriously: a philosophical study. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
Pages: 47-68
Full citation:
Nikulin Dmitri (2014) Everyone joins the fight: the dialectic of comic action, In: Comedy, seriously, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 47–68.