"This volume offers twelve original essays that explore the moral quagmire that is the emotion of amusement. It considers its moral psychology in a range of perspectives, going as far back as ancient Chinese and Greek philosophy up to the most current psychological and sociologi…
"This volume offers twelve original essays that explore the moral quagmire that is the emotion of amusement. It considers its moral psychology in a range of perspectives, going as far back as ancient Chinese and Greek philosophy up to the most current psychological and sociologi…
"This volume offers twelve original essays that explore the moral quagmire that is the emotion of amusement. It considers its moral psychology in a range of perspectives, going as far back as ancient Chinese and Greek philosophy up to the most current psychological and sociologi…
"This volume offers twelve original essays that explore the moral quagmire that is the emotion of amusement. It considers its moral psychology in a range of perspectives, going as far back as ancient Chinese and Greek philosophy up to the most current psychological and sociologi…
"This book investigates the role of humor in the good life, specifically as discussed by three prominent French intellectuals who were influenced by Nietzsche's thought: Georges Bataille, Gilles Deleuze, and Clément Rosset. Lydia Amir begins by discussing Nietzsche's reception i…
"This book investigates the role of humor in the good life, specifically as discussed by three prominent French intellectuals who were influenced by Nietzsche's thought: Georges Bataille, Gilles Deleuze, and Clément Rosset. Lydia Amir begins by discussing Nietzsche's reception i…
Prologue: The French reception of Nietzsche as a philosopher of laughter -- Georges Bataille : the laughter of ecstasy -- Gilles Deleuze : the humor of affirmation -- Clément Rosset : the laughter of annihilation -- Concluding remarks : additional French twentieth-century views …
"This book investigates the role of humor in the good life, specifically as discussed by three prominent French intellectuals who were influenced by Nietzsche's thought: Georges Bataille, Gilles Deleuze, and Clément Rosset. Lydia Amir begins by discussing Nietzsche's reception i…
"This book investigates the role of humor in the good life, specifically as discussed by three prominent French intellectuals who were influenced by Nietzsche's thought: Georges Bataille, Gilles Deleuze, and Clément Rosset. Lydia Amir begins by discussing Nietzsche's reception i…
"This book investigates the role of humor in the good life, specifically as discussed by three prominent French intellectuals who were influenced by Nietzsche's thought: Georges Bataille, Gilles Deleuze, and Clément Rosset. Lydia Amir begins by discussing Nietzsche's reception i…
"The ancient Romans, much like us moderns, valued humor, whether as a social safety valve, an oratorical tool, or just for the fun of it. Yet because humor is so rooted in its specific culture most Roman comic visual representations remain opaque to the modern viewers. In this f…
What makes us laugh and cry, sometimes at the same time? How do these two primal, seemingly discrete and non-verbal modes of expression intersect in everyday life and ritual, and what range of emotions do they evoke? How may they be voiced, shaped, and coloured in literature and…
The anatomy of laughter
by Taylor, Jane H.M, Garfitt, Toby, McMorran, Edith
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