Hegel's laughing

[Dave Monroe]

... hm ... well, realize he's made some ... alarming statements in re:
genetics,
eugenics of late, but, well, howzabout the "kynical" laughter of Peter
Sloterdijk's Critique of Cynical Reason?  Diogenes (?) flinging his
feces, to
bring it, er, on topic?  Laughter as a contestatory, transgressive,
liberatory,
even, force, at any rate.  And, again, the "carnivalesque" as described,
set forh
in Mikhail Bakhtin's Rabelais and His World (wlthough there, the
carnivalesque
is, of course, sanctioned, albeit not necessarily contained, coopted,
recuperated, whatever).   Not necessarily arguing the point, just
floating a few
fungoes, to see where someone might hit and/or catch them, is all, if at
all ...

KXX4493553 at aol.com wrote:

> No shiiii, no shinola. Do you know that Hegel often laughed during his

> lectures? Laughin' attacks, without any control? Because of his silly
> audience? Don't think so. Or perhaps, a part of the explanation. Why
didn't
> he write a "phenomenology of laughing"? 'cause he was not able to.
What was
> his laughing? Mad? Sardonic? Cynic? Sarcastic? All of this, and
nothing. It
> was dialectic laughing. The Geist (ghost, spirit, mind) - all of that
is in
> this word.
>
> And i remember the constant feeling of absurdity and "laugh nihilism"
as I
> called it twenty years ago when I first read GR. Reading GR I was
laughing
> all the time. This Hegelian laughing. When I come back to shit &
shinola,
> than there was of course the constant feeling of LMA - Leckt mich (am)
Arsch,
> get stuffed. But laughing is the only weapon every ruling class fears,
every
> authority, every state, every capitalist - whatever. There's nothing
left to
> loose (definition of freedom). - and a feeling of complete liberation
- in
> the act of  reading. It was the only time in my life when I had this
feeling
> while I was a reading. Ah yes - and the second time in the "Baby
Igor"-scene
> in Crying lot. But there laughing is more a cry, hysterical, you
cannot stop.
> The step before Hegelian laughing - while reading GR.
> kwp