Laughing and crying: a study of the limits of human behavior

by Plessner, Helmuth

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Title Statements

Full title :Laughing and crying : a study of the limits of human behavior / Helmuth Plessner ; translated by James Spencer Churchill and Marjorie Grene ; with a foreword by Marjorie Grene.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:1970.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Northwestern University Press
Place of Publication:Evanston [Ill.]
Language:eng
Publication Date:1970.

The Physical Object

Description:xiii, 172 pages ; : 24 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0810103214, 9780810103214
oclc:ocm00108063
LC Classification:BF575.L3
Dewey Decimal:152.4

The relation of man to his body. The problematic nature of laughing and crying ; Against the prejudice of a dualistic interpretation of man and the false alternatives ; The eccentric position ; Mediateness and explicitness, face and voice -- The modes of expression of laughing and crying. Language, gesture, and expressive movement ; The notion of expressive movement in the light of action ; The expressive character of laughing and crying -- Occasions of laughter. Expressive movements of joy and titillation ; Play; The comic ; Wit and humor (The joke) ; Embarrassment and despair ; The releasing moment -- Occasions of crying. The mediated character of crying ; Attempts at classification ; The resonance of feeling ; The releasing moment -- The source of laughing and crying. Two limits of behavior ; The two boundary reactions.