Authentic Being-Toward-Death
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Only a Joke Can Save Us: A Theory of Comedy · Todd McGowan · p.110
Philosophy and the Finite > Why We Don't Laugh at *Being and Time*
Theoretical move: McGowan argues that Hegel's philosophy of contradiction is structurally comic because it holds finitude and infinitude in speculative identity, while Heidegger's confinement of Dasein to pure finitude renders comedy structurally impossible (inauthentic), thereby using the presence or absence of comedy as a diagnostic criterion for competing ontologies.
The position that Heidegger famously advocates in Being and Time is an authentic being-toward-death... Comedy, from Heidegger's perspective, must be inauthentic.