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“ The ironic speech situation: discursive democracy, citizenship, and humor ”

“ The ironic speech situation: discursive democracy, citizenship, and humor ”. Sammy Basu PhD Associate Professor of Politics Willamette University Salem Oregon, USA. Overview. I. Deliberative democracy II. What ’ s so bad about humor? III. What is humor?

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“ The ironic speech situation: discursive democracy, citizenship, and humor ”

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  1. “The ironic speech situation: discursive democracy, citizenship, and humor” Sammy Basu PhD Associate Professor of Politics Willamette University Salem Oregon, USA

  2. Overview • I. Deliberative democracy • II. What’s so bad about humor? • III. What is humor? • IV. What’s so bad about deliberative democracy? • V. The ironic speech situation

  3. I. Deliberative democracy • Representative democracy and communitarian alternatives • Jurgen Habermas and the Ideal Speech Situation according to which “In the final analysis, the normative content arises from the very structure of communicative actions” (1996:26).

  4. II. What’s so bad about humor?

  5. 1. The buffoon

  6. For Habermas (1982:271), “jokes, fictional representations, irony, games, and so on, rest on intentionally using categorical confusions which, in the wake of the differentiation of validity-claims and corresponding modes (being/illusion, is/ought, essence/appearance), are seen through as category mistakes.”

  7. 2. The cynic, or misanthrope

  8. 3. The boor

  9. 4. The hysteric

  10. III. What is humor?

  11. The essence of humor

  12. Modes of appreciation

  13. Theories of Humor

  14. Theories of Humor

  15. Theories of Humor

  16. IV. What’s so bad about deliberative democracy?

  17. 1. Buffoon, or capacity for • Holistic critic • Specific critic • Linguistic critic

  18. Holistic criticism: Modern Times

  19. Specific Criticism

  20. Linguistic criticism: Support our tropes

  21. 2. Boor, or Devil’s Advocate?

  22. “It would seem that you cannot be funny without being vulgar —…. For it is not only sex that is ‘vulgar’. So are death, childbirth and poverty, the other three subjects upon which the best music-hall humour turns. And respect for the intellect and strong political feeling, if not actually vulgar, are looked upon as being in doubtful taste. You cannot be really funny if your main aim is to flatter the comfortable classes: it means leaving out too much. To be funny, indeed, you have got to be serious.” Orwell (1968)

  23. 3. Cynic (and misanthrope) or necessary hostility?

  24. 4. Hysteria or just cracking up?

  25. V. The ironic speech situation

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