%0 Journal Article
%T Tradition as Gelotopoesis: An Essay on the Hermeneutics of Laughter in Martin Heidegger
%A Tziovanis Georgakis
%J Cosmos and History : the Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy
%D 2011
%I Cosmos and History Publishing Co-op.
%X In this essay, I argue that laughter stands as the tricky possibility of the question of the meaning of Being, which ridiculously limits and gets limited by tradition beyond limitation. I introduce a hermeneutics of laughter and contend that the event of Ereignis receives its meaning from Gelotopoesis¡ªthe poetic act of laughter. Moreover, I claim that the echo of Gelotopoesis becomes the possibility of the transmission of tradition and is attested by a hypertonic boastfulness and a hypotonic irony. These two echoing tonalities question an unquestionable presence, which tradition never questions, in the most excessive manner so that it becomes the proper question of tradition once again.
%K Philosophy
%K Hermeneutics
%K Phenomenology
%K Heidegger
%K Laughter
%U http://www.cosmosandhistory.org/index.php/journal/article/viewFile/241/385