Tradition as Gelotopoesis: An Essay on the Hermeneutics of Laughter in Martin Heidegger

In this essay, I argue that laughter stands as the tricky possibility of the question of the meaning of Being, which ridiculously limits and gets limited by tradition beyond limitation. I introduce a hermeneutics of laughter and contend that the event of Ereignis receives its meaning from Gelotopoes...

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Main Author: Tziovanis Georgakis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cosmos and History Publishing Co-op. 2011-11-01
Series:Cosmos and History : the Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy
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Online Access:http://www.cosmosandhistory.org/index.php/journal/article/viewFile/241/385