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On Humour

Critchley Simon
Innbundet / 2002 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9780415251204
Publisert
2002-05-31
Utgiver
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Routledge
Vekt
430 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Aldersnivå
G, U, 01, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
142

Forfatter
Critchley Simon

Biographical note

Simon Critchley is Professor of Philosophy and Director for the Centre of Theoretical Studies at the University of Essex. He is the author of Ethics-Politics-Subjectivity (1999) and Very LittleAlmost Nothing (Routledge, 1997). His most recent book is Continental Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction (2001).

On Humour

Critchley Simon
Innbundet / 2002 / Engelsk
Critchley Simon
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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.
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This is a fascinating and beautifully written book on what philosophy can tell us about humour and about what it is to be human. It will fascinate and intrigue anyone with a sense of humour.
Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Is Humour Human?; Chapter 3 Laughing at Your Body – Post-Colonal Theory; Chapter 4 The Laughing Machine – a Note on Bergson and Wyndham Lewis; Chapter 5 Foreigners are Funny – the Ethicity and Ethnicity of Humour; Chapter 6 The Joke’s on All of Us – Humour as Sensus Communis; Chapter 7 Why the Super-Ego is Your Amigo – My Sense of Humour and Freud’s;
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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.
Les mer
This is a fascinating and beautifully written book on what philosophy can tell us about humour and about what it is to be human. It will fascinate and intrigue anyone with a sense of humour.
Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Is Humour Human?; Chapter 3 Laughing at Your Body – Post-Colonal Theory; Chapter 4 The Laughing Machine – a Note on Bergson and Wyndham Lewis; Chapter 5 Foreigners are Funny – the Ethicity and Ethnicity of Humour; Chapter 6 The Joke’s on All of Us – Humour as Sensus Communis; Chapter 7 Why the Super-Ego is Your Amigo – My Sense of Humour and Freud’s;
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780415251204
Publisert
2002-05-31
Utgiver
Vendor
Routledge
Vekt
430 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Aldersnivå
G, U, 01, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
142

Forfatter
Critchley Simon

Biographical note

Simon Critchley is Professor of Philosophy and Director for the Centre of Theoretical Studies at the University of Essex. He is the author of Ethics-Politics-Subjectivity (1999) and Very LittleAlmost Nothing (Routledge, 1997). His most recent book is Continental Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction (2001).

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