Philosophy of Humour : New Perspectives /

Philosophy of Humour : New Perspectives /

This volume aims to reignite interest in a sorely neglected field within philosophy: the philosophy of humour. Indeed, although humour, jokes and laughter make up a quintessentially human domain of extreme universal importance, it has not received the sustained and involved attention and investigati...

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Other Authors: Bachmetjevas, Viktoras (Editor), O'Shiel, Daniel (Editor)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2023.

Series: Value Inquiry Book Series ; 389.

Subjects:

Humour.
Laughter.
Wit and humor > History and criticism.

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Call Number: PN6147

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Table of Contents:
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Introduction
  • Viktoras Bachmetjevas and Daniel O'Shiel
  • Part 1
  • Humour and the History of Philosophy
  • 1 Something Better than Comedy
  • David F. Hoinski
  • 2 Sublime, Beautiful, Funny: Humour in §54 of Kant's Third Critique
  • David Sommer
  • 3 The Comic as an Existential Category in Kierkegaard's Thought
  • Viktoras Bachmetjevas
  • Part 2
  • New Theoretical Contributions
  • 4 Prolegomena to a Revised Theory of Humour
  • Alberto Voltolini
  • 5 'Aha!/Haha! - That's a Good One!' On the Correlation of Laughter and Understanding in Joke Reception
  • Mira Magdalena Sickinger
  • 6 Hidden Congruities
  • Daniel O'Shiel
  • Part 3
  • Humour, Morality, Feminism and Politics
  • 7 Fat Jokes and the Problem of Parody
  • Sarah W. Hirschfield
  • 8 A Funny Taste: Immoral Humour and Unwilling Amusement
  • Zoe Walker
  • 9 Feminism's Look at Itself: Self-hygiene through the Prism of Laughter
  • Teodora Marija Grigaitė
  • 10 The Carnival of Populism: Grotesque Leadership
  • Maura Ceci
  • Index.