{"product_id":"9780810149687","title":"Hegel, Marx, and the Laughing Matter of Spirit by Rachel Aumiller","description":"Excavating the comedic crack in historical repetitions   What happens when those who have been denied political subjectivity fully play out their negative role in a historical drama that damned them from the beginning? Hegel, Marx, and the Laughing Matter of Spirit locates the eruption of revolutionary laughter in historical cracks across nineteenth- and twentieth-century Europe, where exiled philosophers, partisan fighters, and artists framed their political resistance as a historical comedy. Hegelian comedy fuels the Young Hegelian critique of Prussian censorship, Walter Benjamin's staging of the anti-fascist resistance, and the Yugoslavian partisan attempt to begin again in fascism's aftermath. Revolution erupts from a historical stage that can no longer look on its own contradictions with a straight face. Drawing on the defiant spirit of comedy, this Hegelian feminist manifesto defies political despair, overturning the perception that history tragically repeats itself. Invoking the phrase \"Nothing changes\" as a mantra, R. A. Aumiller turns a concession of defeat into a battle cry for political resistance.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56368203039093,"sku":"9780810149687","price":26.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780810149687.jpg?v=1763548860","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9780810149687","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}