Laughing Matters: Prolegomena (De Gruyter Studies in Philosophy of Humor, 3/1)

Baruchello, Giorgio; Arnarsson, Ársæll Már

 
9783112216248: Laughing Matters: Prolegomena (De Gruyter Studies in Philosophy of Humor, 3/1)
ISBN 10: 3112216245 ISBN 13: 9783112216248
Verlag: De Gruyter, 2025

Inhaltsangabe

The present book addresses the background, rationale, general structure, and particular aims and arguments characterizing our third and last volume about "humor" and "cruelty". A guiding foray is provided into the vast expert literature that can be retrieved in the Western humanities and social sciences on these two terms. Pivotal thinkers and crucial notions are duly identified, highlighted, and examined. Apposite subsidiary references are also included, especially with regard to psychodynamics and clinical psychology, existentialism, feminism, liberalism, Marxism, and representative recent studies in the philosophy of humor and its cognates. The stage is thus set for the exploration and assessment of the conflicts between humor and cruelty unfolding in Part 2 of Volume 3. Being the philosophical terminus of our entire research project, Volume 3 counterbalances, complements, and, occasionally, complexifies the numerous forms of mutual cooperation between humor and cruelty that the preceding Volume 2 had unearthed and discussed.

"Like Aristotle and Dewey, Arnarsson and Baruchello do not define their terms at the outset, but instead they relentlessly pursue the meanings of two ordinary words that everyone vaguely understads to arrive at a critical insight into the concepts these words represent, which are both disparate and interrelated." - Richard Marc Rubin, President, George Santayana Society

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Giorgio Baruchello, University of Akureyri, Akureyri, Iceland; Ársæll Már Arnarsson, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland.

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Verlag
De Gruyter
Erscheinungsdatum
2025
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
3112216245
ISBN 13 
9783112216248
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Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
254
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