Comedy as Ontology
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Only a Joke Can Save Us: A Theory of Comedy · Todd McGowan · p.97
Philosophy and the Finite > Finitude and Transcendence
Theoretical move: Comedy and philosophy share a structural affinity insofar as both arise from the intersection of finitude and transcendence; McGowan argues that Hegel's speculative identity between the finite and the infinite makes him the paradigmatic "comic philosopher," while Kant's separation of phenomenal and noumenal realms limits comedy to marginal appearances in his work.
Comedy is a form of philosophy... comedy articulates its own ontology through its act of bringing together lack and excess.