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Amusement is an emotion with power. It has the power to make us laugh, but it can also have a power over us (for good or for ill) to control our attention or memory. Amusement can empower our resistance to oppression, or it can itself become an oppressive force. Our amusement can make others feel shame. Amusement even has the power to affect (and be affected by) out moral assessment of others.
This volume offers twelve essays from leading and emerging scholars that explore the moral quagmire that is the emotion of amusement. It is a collection that considers the moral psychology of amusement from a range of perspectives, going as far back as ancient Chinese and Greek philosophy up to the most current psychological and sociological findings.
Contents
Introduction: The Moral Psychology of Amusement
Brian Robinson
PART I: Amusement and Moral Judgments
1 LOL: What We Can Learn from Forced Laughter
Dan Shargel
2 An Interactional Sociolinguist Engages The Moral Psychology of Amusement
Catherine Evans Davies
3 It's All Fun and Games until Someone Gets Hurt: Amusement's Negative Influence on Moral Judgment
Nathan Stout
PART II: Moral Judgments of Amusement
4 Beyond A Joke: A Defence of Comic Moralism
Alan Roberts
5 That's Not Funny
Brian Mondy
6 The Ethics of Humour
Tristan Nash
PART III: Social Moral Judgments of Amusement
7 You Shouldn't Have Laughed! The Ethics of Derogatory Amusement
Andrew Morgan and Ralph DiFranco
8 Amused by the Outrageous: The Morally Tempering Effect of News Satire
Rasmus Rosenberg Larsen and David Sackris
9 Eutrapelia and the Normativity of Social Humor
Andrew Jordan and Stephanie Patridge
PART IV: Ancient Perspectives on The Moral Judgments of Amusement
10 Amusement, Happiness, and the Good Life in Plato's
