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In \u003ci\u003eThe Odd One In\u003c\/i\u003e, Alenka Zupančič considers how philosophy and psychoanalysis can help us understand the movement and the logic involved in the practice of comedy, and how comedy can help philosophy and psychoanalysis recognize some of the crucial mechanisms and vicissitudes of what is called humanity. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eComedy by its nature is difficult to pin down with concepts and definitions, but as artistic form and social practice comedy is a mode of tarrying with a foreign object--of including the exception. Philosophy's relationship to comedy, Zupančič writes, is not exactly a simple story (and indeed includes some elements of comedy). It could begin with the lost book of Aristotle's \u003ci\u003ePoetics\u003c\/i\u003e, which discussed comedy and laughter (and was made famous by Umberto Eco's \u003ci\u003eThe Name of the Rose\u003c\/i\u003e). 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Then, in the second part of the book, she considers Nietzsche's figure of the Noon and its consequences for his notion of the truth. Nietzsche describes the Noon not as the moment when all shadows disappear but as the moment of the shortest shadow--not the unity of all things embraced by the sun, but the moment of splitting, when one turns into two. 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