Comedy begins with our simplest gestures
Subtitle: Levinas, ethics, and humor
By: edited by Brian Bergen-Aurand
Publisher: Duquesne University Press
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9780820707037
Subjects: The Comic; Comedy; Wit and humor; Laughter; Ethics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: You've got to laugh: Levinaisian laughter and the subjectivity of  the subject / Robert Bernasconi; title: Levinas, Bataille, and the comic impasse of the il y a / Jesse Sims; title: How humor holds hostage: exposure, excession, and enjoyment in a Levinas beyond laughter / Timothy Stock; title: "Knock, knock, Who's there, Here I am exposed..." / Brian Bergen-Aurand; title: Toward a critical theory of laughter / Sol Neely; title: Levinas's Divine comedy and Archbishop Romero's joyful laughter / William Paul Simmons; title: Shameless acts of foolish witness / Julie Salverson; title: A clown in search of ethics / Julia Lane; title: Last laugh reincarnated as a lobster: Gilgul as the comedy of substitution / Aubrey L. Glazer.