Blog Post 8 (due 5 PM Wednesday 26th March)

Week 8 Black Humor, Absurdity and the Comedy of Death

Required Reading:
Thomas Nagel, “The Absurd,” The Journal of Philosophy 68:20 (1971), 716-727.

Sigmund Freud, “On Humor,” The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud (London: Hogarth, 1955), 160-166.

Simon Critchley, “Why the Super-Ego is your Amigo,” On Humor (New York: Routledge, 2002), 93-112.