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Hegel, Marx, and the Laughing Matter of Spirit Rachel Aumiller
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Hegel, Marx, and the Laughing Matter of Spirit
Rachel Aumiller
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.
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | November 15, 2025 |
| Original release date | 2026 |
| ISBN13 | 9780810149694 |
| Publishers | Northwestern University Press |
| Pages | 216 |
| Dimensions | 150 × 220 × 20 mm · 362 g |
