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Tragic Laughter: Why Philosophy Is a Joke | Julie Reshe

Thu, 12 Jun

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University of Malta, Valletta Campus

If philosophy doesn’t make you laugh and despair at the same time, you’re doing it wrong—join us to find out why

Tragic Laughter: Why Philosophy Is a Joke | Julie Reshe
Tragic Laughter: Why Philosophy Is a Joke | Julie Reshe

Time & Location

12 Jun 2025, 18:00 – 19:30

University of Malta, Valletta Campus, Valletta, Malta

About the event

Tragic Laughter: Why Philosophy Is a Joke

The most honest philosophy mocks itself. It begins with questions that cannot be answered, seeks clarity only to collapse into paradox, and reaches for truth while knowing it will fail. It is not a solemn pursuit of wisdom but a practice of disappearance, of undoing the self, of standing in the ruins of meaning. If it doesn’t simultaneously hurt you and make you laugh—it’s not philosophy. This talk proposes that the philosopher is a failed comic—not funny enough to be a proper comedian, yet too aware of its own failure to be taken as a sage. With help from existentialism, pessimism, and negative psychoanalysis, we’ll explore how philosophy becomes tragic through the comic—how laughter is its most honest form of despair.


The Speaker

Julie Reshe is a Ukraine-born philosopher, author of a negative psychoanalytic approach, and Visiting Lecturer at University College Cork and…

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