Laughter, humor, and comedy in ancient philosophy
by Destrée, Pierre Trivigno, Franco V.
"Ancient philosophers were very interested in the themes of laughter, humor and comedy. They theorized about laughter and its causes, moralized about the appropriate uses of humor and what it is appropriate to laugh at, and wrote treaties on comedic composition. Further, they were often merciless in ridiculing their opponents' positions, often borrowing comedic devices and techniques from comic poetry and drama to do so. The volume is organized around three themes that were important for ancien…
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- Full title :Laughter, humor, and comedy in ancient philosophy / edited by Pierre Destrée and Franco V. Trivigno.
Summary
"Ancient philosophers were very interested in the themes of laughter, humor and comedy. They theorized about laughter and its causes, moralized about the appropriate uses of humor and what it is appropriate to laugh at, and wrote treaties on comedic composition. Further, they were often merciless in ridiculing their opponents' positions, often borrowing comedic devices and techniques from comic poetry and drama to do so. The volume is organized around three themes that were important for ancient philosophers: the psychology of laughter, the ethical and social norms governing laughter and humor. and the philosophical uses of humor and comedic technique"--
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- Publication Date:2019
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication:New York, NY
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2019
The Physical Object
- Description:xii, 286 pages ; : 25 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780190460549, 0190460547
- oclc:on1089493991
- LC Classification:B105.C456
- Dewey Decimal:152.4/30938
Table of Contents
Plato on laughter and moral harm / Franco V. Trivigno -- Aristotle on the causes of humor / Pierre Destrée -- The laughing philosopher and the physician : laughter, diagnosis and therapy / Jim Hankinson -- Divine and human laughter in later Platonism / Malcolm Heath -- Aristotle on wittiness / Matt Walker -- Laughter, social norms and ethics in Cicero's works / Charles Guérin -- Laughter and the moral guide : Dio Chrysostom and Plutarch / Michael Trapp -- Self-ridicule : Socratic wisdom / Paul Woodruff -- Ridicule and protreptic : Plato, his reader and the role of comedy in inquiry / M.M. McCabe -- Humor as philosophical subversion, especially in the skeptics / Richard Bett -- Philosophy is great fun! Laughter in Epicureanism / Geert Roskam -- The mouse, the moneybox, and the six-footed scurrying Solecism : satire and riddles in Seneca's letters / Margaret Graver -- Diogenes vs. Demonax : laughter as philosophy in Lucian / Inger Kuin.
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