Theology, Comedy, Politics
What relevance has comedy for the global crises of late-modernity and the theological critique thereof? Coming out of the experience of war, a generation of modern theologians such as Donald MacKinnon, Hans Urs von Balthasar, and, more recently, Rowan Williams, in their accommodation to literature, choose tragedy as the paradigm for theological understanding and ethics. By contrast, this book develops recent philosophical, anthropological, and psychoanalytical studies of humor to develop a theology of comedy. By deconstructing secular accounts of comedy it advances the argument that comedy is not only participatory of the divine, but that it…
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Weitere Autoren: Moyse, Ashley John (Hrsg.) / Kirkland, Scott A. (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-5064-5835-9
- EAN: 9781506458359
- Produktnummer: 32349852
- Verlag: Fortress Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 120 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 4'843 KB
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Edited by Marcus Pound; Ashley John Moyse and Scott A. Kirkland
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