02805nam 2200565Ia 450 991082597570332120230802010322.01-84760-210-X(CKB)2550000001042865(EBL)3306132(SSID)ssj0001051821(PQKBManifestationID)11678963(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001051821(PQKBWorkID)11060992(PQKB)10949005(MiAaPQ)EBC3306132(Au-PeEL)EBL3306132(CaPaEBR)ebr10678817(OCoLC)846986023(EXLCZ)99255000000104286520130417d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe philosophy of humour[electronic resource] /Paul McDonaldPenrith, CA HEB Humanities E-Booksc20121 online resource (138 p.)Philosophy insightsDescription based upon print version of record.1-84760-238-X Includes bibliographical references.""Cover""; ""Licence and Use ""; ""Title Page ""; ""Copyright Notice ""; ""CONTENTS ""; ""Acknowledgments ""; ""1. Introduction ""; ""1.1 Humour or Laughter?""; ""2. The Origins and Evolution of Humour ""; ""2.1 The Emergence of Humour""; ""2.2 The Benefits of Humour""; ""2.3 Is Humour an Emotion?""; ""3. The Earliest Philosophies of Humour ""; ""3.1 Plato""; ""3.2 Aristotle""; ""3.3 Cicero""; ""4. Superiority Theories of Humour ""; ""4.1 Rene Descartes: The Benefits of Ridicule ""; ""4.2 Thomas Hobbes: Sudden Glory""; ""4.3 Henri Bergson: The Mechanical Encrusted on the Living""""7.1 John Morreall: On the Positive and Negative Ethics of Humour""""7.2 Ethnic Humour""; ""7.3 Christie Davis""; ""7.4 Walsall People Are Stupid""; ""7.5 Ted Cohen: Just Joking""; ""8. Humour and Religion ""; ""8.1 Humour and Christianity""; ""8.2 Holy Fools""; ""8.3 Judaism and Humour""; ""8.4 Humour and Buddhism""; ""9. Postmodernism and Humour ""; ""9.1 John A. McClure: The Comically Cosmic""; ""9.2 Humour as Philosophy""; ""9.3 Susan Purdie: Joking and the Unstable Self""; ""9.4 The Laugh of the Medusa""; ""10. Laughter and the Limits of Understanding """"Humour and the Human Predicament""""11. Bibliography ""; ""A Note on the Author ""; "" Humanities Insights ""Philosophy insights.LaughterWit and humorLaughter.Wit and humor.128.3McDonald Paul694301MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910825975703321The philosophy of humour3978588UNINA