Why We Laugh (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Cox, Samuel S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1331531454 ISBN 13: 9781331531456

Verlag: LULU PR, 2018

Inhaltsangabe

Excerpt from Why We Laugh

The idea which prompted this volume was to string such humors as were illustrative, upon some philosophic threads, which had been floating in my mind.

Has not humor a philosophy of its own-physical, mental, and moral? It is said by Hazlitt, in his article on wit and humor, that you can not give a reason why you laugh; that people must laugh of themselves, or not at all. Without denying that we laugh with spontaneous impulse, and sometimes the more, at any restraint upon this impulse, yet the very categories of the critic himself prove that the laugh has a rational philosophy. They answer the Horatian query Quid Rides?

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• Verlag: LULU PR
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1331531454
• ISBN 13: 9781331531456
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 398
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