Philosophy of Humour
New Perspectives
Published on 17. July 2023
Book
Hardback
196 pages
978-90-04-54880-0 (ISBN)
Description
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 investigation that it merits. This volume draws on theories both distant and more nearby in order to contemporize the discussion into the 21st century, with each of the ten contributions demonstrating just how many perspectives and conversations are to be had, both on theoretical and concrete levels, now and going forward.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
455 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-54880-0 (9789004548800)
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Persons
Daniel O'Shiel is an independent researcher and teacher in philosophy, with main expertise and interests in phenomenology, existentialism, philosophical anthropology and philosophy of technology. Amongst his publications are two books entitled Sartre and Magic (2019) and The Phenomenology of Virtual Technology (2022).
Viktoras Bachmetjevas is an Associate Professor at Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas, Lithuania. He works in the field of continental ethics, with special interest in its intersections with philosophy of religion. He has published on Kierkegaard, Levinas and 20th-century French philosophy.
Viktoras Bachmetjevas is an Associate Professor at Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas, Lithuania. He works in the field of continental ethics, with special interest in its intersections with philosophy of religion. He has published on Kierkegaard, Levinas and 20th-century French philosophy.
Content
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? ?Grigait?e??????
10?The Carnival of Populism: Grotesque Leadership
??Maura? ?Ceci???
?Index
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? ?Grigait?e??????
10?The Carnival of Populism: Grotesque Leadership
??Maura? ?Ceci???
?Index