Fool and clowns: the shadow of aesthetics

Abstract

This article intends to reflect on a range of concepts about joy through figures that embody the aesthetics of plenty, in this case, the fool and the clown. From the Greeks to the late 19th century, the philosophy remained thinking what should be considered serious. In 1677, with the publication of "Ethics", Spinoza thought about the affections, one of them, the joy, even though he had done it with the righteousness of a geometer. The Spinozian writing is the joy wondered by the seriously. Only in the second half of the 19th century, Friedrich Nietzsche rejoices philosophical writing. In a world where children increasingly ignore the sense of fool and clown for life, think of the joy on this article is to try to return to that word in its deep originality, absent sense nowadays.