Pathos as Dominant Mode
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Only a Joke Can Save Us: A Theory of Comedy · Todd McGowan · p.80
Tragedy and Pathos > The Pathetic Martin Heidegger
Theoretical move: The passage argues that Heidegger's philosophy of finitude installs pathos as the dominant modern mode of relating to others, crowding out both tragedy and comedy—both of which require transcendence—and that this ubiquitous finitude reduces all beings to pitiable victims, eliminating the dignity that comedy and tragedy confer.
Today, pathos has become the predominant mode of relating to others. In a pathetic world, every being is finite and thus merits our care.