Overview

Aristophanes' comedies have stood the test of time as some of the greatest comic literature ever produced. While there have been numerous commentaries on Aristophanes and his world, until now there has been no systematic philosophical treatment of his comedies. In Philosophy and Comedy, Bernard Freydberg illuminates the philosophical insights in Aristophanes' texts by presenting close readings of Clouds, Wasps, Assemblywomen, and Lysistrata, addressing their comic genius at the same time. Freydberg challenges notions that philosophy is best served by a tragic disposition and arrives at a new assessment of the philosophical importance of comedy.

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[Opens] up Aristophanes' hilarious and vulgar texts to an exploration of their more subtle and complex underlying senses. Sara Brill, Fairfield University [The] real asset of Freydberg's work is that he has turned us in the right direction to appreciate the philosophy implicit in comedy. Robert Metcalf, University of Colorado at Denver

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Bernard Freydberg is Research Professor of Philosophy at Koç University, Istanbul. He is author of Imagination in Kant's Critique of Practical Reason (IUP, 2005).

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