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Shaun May

    Capital-in-crisis, trade unionism and the question of revolutionary agency
    A Philosophy of Comedy on Stage and Screen
    • With case studies drawn from theatre, film, television, literature and stand-up comedy, Shaun May's book offers a witty but erudite exploration of the phenomenon of comedy using Heideggerean phenomenology.

      A Philosophy of Comedy on Stage and Screen
    • The entry of the capital relation into its epoch of structural crisis forms the basis for the development of the author's conception of revolutionary agency. Drawing on the work of Karl Marx and István Mészáros, May relates the emergence and deepening of this crisis to the decline and growing historic outmodedness of trade unionism.

      Capital-in-crisis, trade unionism and the question of revolutionary agency