Making Philosophy Laugh

by Dustin Peone

Contemporary philosophy has adopted an increasingly tragic point of view. Tragedy, though, is only a partial truth of the human condition. Comedy is another partial truth. The nature of human existence is neither wholly the one nor the other, but tragi-comic. Philosophy must be attuned to both despair and laughter if it is to understand its own world. In Making Philosophy Laugh, the philosopher Dustin Peone makes an apology for the comic side of existence...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1666756008
• ISBN13: 9781666756005
• Release Date: October 2023
• Publisher: Cascade Books
• Length: 166 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"