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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1859
Category : Anecdotes
ISBN : OCLC:54911915
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1825
Category : American wit and humor
ISBN : NYPL:33433082285697
Author : Pierre Destrée,Franco V. Trivigno
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780190460556
Ancient philosophers considered question about laughter, humor, and comedy to be both philosophically interesting and important. They theorized about laughter and its causes, moralized about the appropriate uses of humor and what it is appropriate to laugh at, and wrote treaties on comedic composition. They were often merciless in ridiculing their opponents' positions, borrowing comedic devices and techniques from comic poetry and drama to do so. This volume is organized around three sets of questions that illuminate the philosophical concerns and corresponding range of answers found in ancient philosophy. The first set investigates the psychology of laughter. What is going on in our minds when we laugh? What background conditions must be in place for laughter to occur? Is laughter necessarily hostile or derisive? The second set of questions concerns the ethical and social norms governing laughter and humor. When is it appropriate or inappropriate to laugh? Does laughter have a positive social function? Is there a virtue, or excellence, connected to laugher and humor? The third set of questions concerns the philosophical uses of humor and comedic technique. Do philosophers use humor exclusively in criticizing rivals, or can it play a positive educational role as well? If it can, how does philosophical humor communicate its philosophical content? This volume does not aim to settle these fascinating questions but more importantly to start a conversation about them, and serve as a reference point for discussions of laughter, humor, and comedy in ancient philosophy.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 780 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1835
Category : English wit and humor
ISBN : CHI:50849384
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1833
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433082292396
Author : Pierre Destrée,Franco V. Trivigno
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780190460549
"Ancient philosophers were very interested in the themes of laughter, humor and comedy. They theorized about laughter and its causes, moralized about the appropriate uses of humor and what it is appropriate to laugh at, and wrote treaties on comedic composition. Further, they were often merciless in ridiculing their opponents' positions, often borrowing comedic devices and techniques from comic poetry and drama to do so. The volume is organized around three themes that were important for ancient philosophers: the psychology of laughter, the ethical and social norms governing laughter and humor. and the philosophical uses of humor and comedic technique"--
Author : Simon Critchley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2011-08-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781135199029
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 tendency to laugh at animals and our bodies, why we mock death with comedy and why we think it's funny when people act like machines. He also looks at the darker side of humour, as rife in sexism and racism and argues that it is important for reminding us of people we would rather not be.
Author : John Pseud ? Bull
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 786 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1362171743
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Author : John Morreall
Publisher : Suny Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Humor
ISBN : UOM:39015011904490
This book assesses the adequacy of the traditional theories of laughter and humor, suggests revised theories, and explores such areas as the aesthetics and ethics of humor, and the relation of amusement to other mental states. Theories of laughter and humor originated in ancient times with the view that laughter is an expression of feelings of superiority over another person. This superiority theory was held by Plato, Aristotle, and Hobbes. Another aspect of laughter, noted by Aristotle and Cicero and neglected until Kant and Schopenhauer developed it into the incongruity theory, is that laughter is often a reaction to the perception of some incongruity. According to the third and latest traditional theory, the relief theory of Herbert Spencer and Freud, laughter is the venting of superfluous nervous energy. Historical examples of all these theories are presented along with hybrid theories such as those of Descartes and Bergson. The book also features traditional explorations of the place of humor in aesthetics, drama, and literature. This is the first work in the last fifty years to include the classic sources in the philosophy of humor and the first to present theories by contemporary philosophers.
Author : Terry Eagleton
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780300244786
A compelling guide to the fundamental place of humour and comedy within Western culture—by one of its greatest exponents Written by an acknowledged master of comedy, this study reflects on the nature of humour and the functions it serves. Why do we laugh? What are we to make of the sheer variety of laughter, from braying and cackling to sniggering and chortling? Is humour subversive, or can it defuse dissent? Can we define wit? Packed with illuminating ideas and a good many excellent jokes, the book critically examines various well-known theories of humour, including the idea that it springs from incongruity and the view that it reflects a mildly sadistic form of superiority to others. Drawing on a wide range of literary and philosophical sources, Terry Eagleton moves from Aristotle and Aquinas to Hobbes, Freud, and Bakhtin, looking in particular at the psychoanalytical mechanisms underlying humour and its social and political evolution over the centuries.
Author : Henri Bergson
Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022-07-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9788728337462
‘Laughter’ is a collection of three essays by French philosopher and Nobel Prize for Literature winner, Henri Bergson. In this interesting piece of philosophy that will be enjoyed by those studying stand-up comedy, Bergson explores laughter, the meaning of the comic, and how laughter is caused by a comic to determine categories and laws of comedy. Henri Bergson was a French philosopher, born in 1859, who criticised his contemporary Kant, and debated Albert Einstein. In 1927, Bergson won the Nobel Prize in Literature "in recognition of his rich and vitalizing ideas and the brilliant skill with which they have been presented".
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Union catalogs
ISBN : UOM:39015082987325
Author : Robert Charles Sands,William Cullen Bryant
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1825
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CHI:13697866
Author : William Cullen Bryant,Robert Charles Sands,Henry J. Anderson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1825
Category : American periodicals
ISBN : UOM:39015063752052
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1825
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433104873819