Philosophy of Humour : New Perspectives (Value Inquiry Book Series)

O'Shiel, Daniel (EDT)/ Bachmetjevas, Viktoras (EDT)

Brill（2023/09発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 201 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004548800

Full 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.

Contents

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 Grigaitė

10 The Carnival of Populism: Grotesque Leadership

  Maura Ceci

 Index