Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vi
4. Introducing Gelopolitics 1
5. 1. The Laughing Body Politic: The Counter/sovereign Politics of Hobbes’s Theory of Laughter 39
6. 2. Beyond A/gelasty: Adorno’s Critical Theory of Laughter 65
7. 3. Over a Barrel: Ellison and the Democratic Politics of Black Laughter 95
8. 4. The Best Medicine? Repoliticising Laughter for Contemporary Feminist and Queer Politics 123
9. The End of Laughter? Gelopolitics and the New Agelasty 160
10. References 173
11. Index 198