02440oam 2200541I 450 991095559450332120251117075925.01-135-19902-71-283-37380-797866133738090-203-87012-31-135-19903-510.4324/9780203870129 (MiAaPQ)EBC668586(Au-PeEL)EBL668586(CaPaEBR)ebr10527662(CaONFJC)MIL337380(OCoLC)769341468(OCoLC)785=776276(CKB)2670000000133116(BIP)63420117(BIP)7538404(EXLCZ)99267000000013311620180706d2002 uy 0engurun#|||uuuuuOn humour /Simon CritchleyLondon ;New York :Routledge,2002.145pThinking in actionDescription based upon print version of record.0-415-25121-4 0-415-25120-6 Includes bibliographical references (p. [121]-124) and index.1. Introduction -- 2. Is humour human? -- 3. Laughing at your body : post-colonal theory -- 4. The laughing machine : a note on Bergson and Wyndham Lewis -- 5. Foreigners are funny : the ethicity and ethnicity of humour -- 6. The joke's on all of us : humour as sensus communis -- 7. Why the super-ego is your amigo : my sense of humour and Freud's.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.Thinking in action.Wit and humorHistory and criticismWit and humorHistory and criticism.128/.3Critchley Simon1960-,687642MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910955594503321On humour1232891UNINA