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Publication details

Publisher: Springer

Place: Berlin

Year: 2015

Pages: 127-141

Series: Sophia Studies in Cross-cultural Philosophy of Traditions and Cultures

ISBN (Hardback): 9789401794473

Full citation:

Costica Bradatan, "The world as farce", in: Politics of religion/religions of politics, Berlin, Springer, 2015

Abstract

This chapter proposes an interdisciplinary introduction to the notion of the political world as farce. More exactly, it advances the argument that, despite experiencing the world as a joke of cosmic proportions, an individual can still create meaning even in the most meaningless conditions (concentration camps, totalitarian societies and the like). The paper traces the presence of the topic in Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov and Primo Levi's Se questo è un uomo and discusses the particular case of Milan Kundera, for whom the historical world appears as nothing but a cruel joke.

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Publication details

Publisher: Springer

Place: Berlin

Year: 2015

Pages: 127-141

Series: Sophia Studies in Cross-cultural Philosophy of Traditions and Cultures

ISBN (Hardback): 9789401794473

Full citation:

Costica Bradatan, "The world as farce", in: Politics of religion/religions of politics, Berlin, Springer, 2015