Humour, Transcendence, and Selfhood: An Essay on Lightness and Truth
Modern Theology November 25, 2024 Simon Ravenscroft
Abstract This article is concerned with a ‘lightness that is as far as possible from triviality’. It argues, firstly, that a connection can be drawn between comic perception and pictures of reality that entail transcendence, understood as an otherness at the heart of things that may be indirectly glimpsed but never fully grasped as the object of fixed knowledge. To picture transcendence as...