Comic Philosophies in Today's Lens
This series of articles, thoughts, and perspectives from Plato, Hobbes, Kant, Sand Kierkegaard offers a new and deeper understanding of the aspects of comedy and what makes us, as humans beings, laugh. I thought of these perspectives in the way we discussed comedy and Samantha Irby’s text. I believe the way we described and analyzed Irby’s comical literature aligned similarly to Kierkegaard’s philosophy. He claims that the ‘tragic and the comic are in the same, in far as both are based on the contradiction; but the tragic is the suffering contradiction, the comical, the painless contradiction” (Kierkegaard, 83). Kierkegaard gives an example of this style of comedy he is referring to stating, “When a man seeks permission to establish himself as an innkeeper and is refused, it is not comical; but if the refusal is based on the fact there are so few innkeepers, then it is comical, because a reason is used as reason against” (86). This idea that ...