Philosophy of Finitude
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Only a Joke Can Save Us: A Theory of Comedy · Todd McGowan · p.119
Philosophy and the Finite > "The Deadly Jester"
Theoretical move: McGowan argues that Žižek's comedy is not merely stylistic but is philosophically grounded in Hegel's speculative identity of the infinite and the finite: jokes expose the impossibility of pure finitude by showing how the infinite (transcendence, belief, excess) returns uninvited within finite, immanent life, making comedy the privileged form of Hegelian philosophy.
Žižek's significance as a contemporary philosopher has its basis in his effort to counter the philosophy of finitude that dominated the twentieth century.