On humour.
Does humour make us human, or do the cats and dogs laugh along with us? On Humour is a fascinating, beautifully written and funny book on what humour can tell us about being human. Simon Critchley skilfully probes some of the most perennial but least understood aspects of humour, such as our tendenc...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor & Francis,
2002.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; On Humour; Copyright; Content; 1. Introduction One; Three Theories of Humour; The Phenomenology of a Joke; Comic Timing; Laughter as an Explosion Expressed With the Body; Changing the Situation; Reactionary Humour; Structured Fun; Jokes: Good, Bad and Gulliver; Laughter's Messianic Power; Sensus and Dissensus Communis; Tristram Shandy, or Back to the Things Themselves; 2. Is Humour Human? Two; Eccentric Humans; A Small Bestiary; Horace and Juvenal, Urbanity and Disgust; Outlandish Animals; Kant's Parrot; 3. Laughing at Your Body
- Post-Colonal Theory Three; Being and Having.
- Physics and MetaphysicsOur Souls, Arseholes; Peditology; The Black Sun at the Centre of the Comic Universe; 4. The Laughing Machine
- a Note on Bergson and Wyndham Lewis Four; A Cabbage Reading Flaubert
- Now That's Funny; How Humour Begins in Philosophy; 5. Foreigners are Funny
- the Ethicity and Ethnicity of Humour Five; The Universal and the Particular; Ethos and Ethnos; There was a Frenchman, an Englishman and an Irishman; Having the Courage of our Parochialism; Comic Repression; 6. The Joke's on All of Us
- Humour as Sensus Communis Six; Shaftesbury's Reasonable Raillery.
- Disenchantment of Folly or Democratization of Wit?Intersubjective Assent; Jokes as Everyday Anamnesis; Anaesthesia of the Heart; The Phenomenology of Phenomenology; 7. Why the Super-Ego is Your Amigo
- My Sense of Humour and Freud's Seven; Finding Oneself Ridiculous; Subject as Abject Object; Melancholy Philosophers; Manic Intoxication; Humour as Anti-Depressant; Super-Ego I and II; Ideal Sickness; Smiling
- the Mind's Mime; The Risus Purus; Laughter I and II; Notes; Bibliography; Thanks; Index.