On Humour
Series: Thinking in Action;
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 31 May 2002
- ISBN 9780415251211
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages144 pages
- Size 198x129 mm
- Weight 163 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
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.
MoreLong description:
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.
MoreTable of Contents:
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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