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The philosophy of humour /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autor principal: | |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Penrith, CA :
HEB Humanities E-Books,
[2012]
©2012 |
| Colección: | Philosophy insights.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Licence and Use
- Title Page
- Copyright Notice
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction
- 1.1 Humour or Laughter?
- 2. The Origins and Evolution of Humour
- 2.1 The Emergence of Humour
- 2.2 The Benefits of Humour
- 2.3 Is Humour an Emotion?
- 3. The Earliest Philosophies of Humour
- 3.1 Plato
- 3.2 Aristotle
- 3.3 Cicero
- 4. Superiority Theories of Humour
- 4.1 Rene Descartes: The Benefits of Ridicule
- 4.2 Thomas Hobbes: Sudden Glory
- 4.3 Henri Bergson: The Mechanical Encrusted on the Living
- 4.4 Humour as a Game4.5 Roger Scruton: Attentive Demolition
- 5. Incongruity Theory
- 5.1 Frances Hutcheson and James Beattie
- 5.2 Immanuel Kant: Transformations into Nothing
- 5.3 Arthur Schopenhauer: Pleasure in the Defeat of Reason
- 5.4 SÃ?ren Kierkegaard
- 5.5 Problems with Incongruity Theory
- 5.6 So Where Does that Leave Us?
- 6. Relief Theories
- 6.1 Herbert Spencer: Nervous Energy
- 6.2 Sigmund Freud: The Unconscious
- 6.3 Freud and Play
- 6.4 Mikhail Bakhtin: Carnival
- 7. Humour and Ethics
- 7.1 John Morreall: On the Positive and Negative Ethics of Humour7.2 Ethnic Humour
- 7.3 Christie Davis
- 7.4 Walsall People Are Stupid
- 7.5 Ted Cohen: Just Joking
- 8. Humour and Religion
- 8.1 Humour and Christianity
- 8.2 Holy Fools
- 8.3 Judaism and Humour
- 8.4 Humour and Buddhism
- 9. Postmodernism and Humour
- 9.1 John A. McClure: The Comically Cosmic
- 9.2 Humour as Philosophy
- 9.3 Susan Purdie: Joking and the Unstable Self
- 9.4 The Laugh of the Medusa
- 10. Laughter and the Limits of Understanding
- Humour and the Human Predicament11. Bibliography
- A Note on the Author
- Humanities Insights