Why so serious : on philosophy and comedy / edited by Russell Ford.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Why so serious? on philosophy and comedy / Russell Ford -- Plato and the spectacle of laughter / Michael Naas -- Homage to Penia : Aristophanes' Plutus as philosophical comedy / Bernard Freydberg -- Prostrating before Adrasteia : comedy, philosophy, and "one's own" in Republic V / Sonja Tanner -- At least they had an Ethos : comedy as the only possible critique / Richard A. Lee, Jr -- Absolute knowing : consternation and preservation in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit and Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida / Jennifer Ann Bates -- Something mechanical encrusted on the living or, "Que signifie le rire?" / Richard Doyle -- Humor, law, and jurisprudence : on Deleuze's political philosophy / Russell Ford -- Go bleep yourself! : why censorship is funny / Robert T. Valgenti -- Quantum Andy : Andy Kaufman and the postmodern turn in comedy / H. Peter Steeves -- Being funny : ontology is a queer subject (or, Tractatus cucumber saladicus)(a Zen Maoist koan) / Bill Martin.