Kant's Humorous Writings
An Illustrated Guide
1st Edition
Published on 12. November 2020
280 pages
978-1-350-11277-3 (ISBN)
Description
While Kant is commonly regarded as one of the most austere philosophers of all time, this book provides quite a different perspective of the founder of transcendental philosophy. Kant is often thought of as being boring, methodical, and humorless. Yet the thirty jokes and anecdotes collected and illustrated here for the first time reveal a man and a thinker who was deeply interested in how humor and laughter shape how we think, feel, and communicate with fellow human beings.
In addition to a foreword on Kant's theory of humor by Noël Carroll as well as Clewis's informative chapters, Kant's Humorous Writings contains new translations of Kant's jokes, quips, and anecdotes. Each of the thirty excerpts is illustrated and supplemented by historical commentaries which explain their significance.
In addition to a foreword on Kant's theory of humor by Noël Carroll as well as Clewis's informative chapters, Kant's Humorous Writings contains new translations of Kant's jokes, quips, and anecdotes. Each of the thirty excerpts is illustrated and supplemented by historical commentaries which explain their significance.
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1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN-13
978-1-350-11277-3 (9781350112773)
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Persons
Robert R. Clewis teaches philosophy and is Associate Director of the Honors Program at Gwynedd Mercy University, USA. He is author of The Kantian Sublime and the Revelation of Freedom (2009), a translator in Kant's Lectures on Anthropology (2012), and editor of Reading Kant's Lectures (2015) and The Sublime Reader (Bloomsbury, 2019).
Content
Foreword by Noël Carroll
Part One. Kant's Theory of Humor
Chapter 1: The Secret Soul of Kant's Joke
Chapter 2: Three Questions about Laughter at Humor
Chapter 3: Kant and the Ethics of Humor
Part Two. Jokes
Incongruity Jokes
1. The Merchant's Wig
2. Happy Funeral Mourners
3. Swift Wit
4. Dying of Good Health
5. £200
6. Of Juice and Justice
7. King Louis' Gate
8. Thinking with One's Body
9. The Happy Cuckold
10. Full of Bull
11. With Friends Like These
Ethnic and Sexist Jokes and Quips
12. Foam in a Bottle
13. German Fools
14. The Bearded Woman
15. Samuel Johnson's Wife
Jokes with a Point
16. Abelard's Flying Ox
17. Which Way the Wind Blows
18. Philosophy Detox
19. The Voltaire Bros
20. The Life You Save May Be Your Own
Part Three. Sayings with a Message
21. Ragout, with Wit on the Side
22. Hooped Skirts and Pruned Trees
23. Heidegger as a Woman
24. There Are No Ugly Noses
25. A Whale Barrel
26. To Each his Own
27. Pyrrho's Pig: That's What I'm Talking about
28. Hobson's Choice
29. Sex and Death
30. An Honest Man Is Hard to Find
Appendix: Chapter Summaries
Bibliography
Index
Part One. Kant's Theory of Humor
Chapter 1: The Secret Soul of Kant's Joke
Chapter 2: Three Questions about Laughter at Humor
Chapter 3: Kant and the Ethics of Humor
Part Two. Jokes
Incongruity Jokes
1. The Merchant's Wig
2. Happy Funeral Mourners
3. Swift Wit
4. Dying of Good Health
5. £200
6. Of Juice and Justice
7. King Louis' Gate
8. Thinking with One's Body
9. The Happy Cuckold
10. Full of Bull
11. With Friends Like These
Ethnic and Sexist Jokes and Quips
12. Foam in a Bottle
13. German Fools
14. The Bearded Woman
15. Samuel Johnson's Wife
Jokes with a Point
16. Abelard's Flying Ox
17. Which Way the Wind Blows
18. Philosophy Detox
19. The Voltaire Bros
20. The Life You Save May Be Your Own
Part Three. Sayings with a Message
21. Ragout, with Wit on the Side
22. Hooped Skirts and Pruned Trees
23. Heidegger as a Woman
24. There Are No Ugly Noses
25. A Whale Barrel
26. To Each his Own
27. Pyrrho's Pig: That's What I'm Talking about
28. Hobson's Choice
29. Sex and Death
30. An Honest Man Is Hard to Find
Appendix: Chapter Summaries
Bibliography
Index
