ABSTRACT

The bourgeois order, like any conventional order, is built first upon the renunciation of fun: in fact upon a stern rejection of the plenitude of its possibilities in favour of the creation, in reality, of a single conceptual and practical world. In bourgeois society, the contrast between this reality and its dissolution as fun has, for the most part, been conceptualized as the opposition between reason and unreason. Fun, however, evading all linguistic designation, playfully insinuates itself into the life of reason itself.