Redeeming Laughter
The Comic Dimension of Human Experience
1st Edition
Published on 6. February 2013
XVII, 215 pages
978-3-11-081066-0 (ISBN)
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Content
- Intro
- Prefatory Remarks, Self-Serving Explanations and Unsolicited Compliments
- Prologue
- PART I. ANATOMY OF THE COMIC
- 1 The Comic Intrusion
- 2 Philosophers of the Comic, and the Comedy of Philosophy
- 3 Laughing Monks: A Very Brief Sinitic Interlude
- 4 Homo Ridens: Physiology and Psychology
- 5 Homo Ridiculus: Social Constructions of the Comic
- 6 Interlude: Brief Reflections on Jewish Humor
- PART II. COMIC FORMS OF EXPRESSION
- 7 The Comic as Diversion: Benign Humor
- 8 The Comic as Consolation: Tragicomedy
- 9 The Comic as Game of Intellect: Wit
- 10 The Comic as Weapon: Satire
- 11 Interlude: The Eternal Return of Folly
- PART III. TOWARD A THEOLOGY OF THE COMIC
- 12 The Folly of Redemption
- 13 Interlude: On Grim Theologians
- 14 The Comic as a Signal of Transcendence
- Epilogue
