crisis and critique

Introduction: Tragedy… Comedy

by Frank Ruda & Agon Hamza

Humor and Metaphysical Truth

by Mark Alznauer

Success in Failure: From the Destruction of the Tragic to the Self-negation of the Comic

by Jack Black

The Flowers of Andromache: Allegory, Ontology, and Tragedy in “Le Cygne”

by Nathan Brown

The Young Hegel: Tragedy, and the Irreducible Priority of Absolute Contradiction for Critical Social Analysis

by Wesley Furlotte

Another Report on Banality

by Andrea Gadberry

Laughing at and with Psychoanalysis

by Patricia Gherovici and Jamieson Webster

“Tragic-Comic Structure Unmoored: A Note on Julie Taymor’s Titus & Children’s Toys”

by Jeremy Matthew Glick

Horror and Hilarity in the Work of Samuel Beckett

by Alexi Kukuljevic

The Comedy of Tragedy: A Marxist Reading of “Wuthering Heights”

by Jean-Jacques Lecercle

A Divided Emancipation: The Alienation of the Modern Tragic Hero

by Todd McGowan

The Manoeuvres of Seriousness: Expelling Comedy from Philosophy and Politics

by Manfred Schneider

Oneself as an Enemy: Tragedy and the Dialectic

by Alberto Toscano

Reading the Tragedy of Covid

by Jennifer Wallace

The Tragic (Modern) Stuttering Machine

by Heather H. Yeung

The Philosophical Dignity of Comedy, Interview with Robert Pfaller

by Frank Ruda & Agon Hamza

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