05904nam 2200637Ia 450 991096567020332120251117065219.01-283-01225-197866130122581-907343-27-X(CKB)2670000000079626(OCoLC)707096187(CaPaEBR)ebrary10451048(SSID)ssj0000469447(PQKBManifestationID)12194634(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000469447(PQKBWorkID)10511427(PQKB)11316465(MiAaPQ)EBC3007752(Au-PeEL)EBL3007752(CaPaEBR)ebr10451048(CaONFJC)MIL301225(OCoLC)923618875(BIP)46256110(BIP)34358847(EXLCZ)99267000000007962620100427d2011 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrThe future of post-human humor a preface to a new theory of joking and laughing /Peter BaofuCambridge, UK Cambridge International Science Pub.c20111 online resource (465 p.)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph1-907343-26-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.Intro -- CONTENTS -- Part One: Introduction -- Part Two: Joking -- Part Three: Laughing -- Part Four: Conclusion -- TABLES -- FOREWORD -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- PART ONE Introduction -- CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION - THE FUN OF HUMOR -- Humor to Be, or ot to Be, a Frog Can -- Humor in Relation to Joking and Laughing -- Joking -- Laughing -- The Theoretical Debate -- The Mental Argument -- The Natural Argument -- The Societal Argument -- The Cultural Argument -- The Metamorphic Argument -- The Metamorphic Theory of Humor -- Theory and Meta-Theory -- The Classification of Theory and Meta-Theory -- A Unified Theory of Everything -- The Logic of Existential Dialectics -- The Conception of Existential Dialectics (or Its Ontics) -- The Syntax of Existential Dialectics (or Its Ontomethodology and Ontologic) -- The Semantics of Existential Dialectics (or Its Ontosemantics) -- The Pragmatics of Existential Dialectics (or Its Ontopragmatics) -- Sophisticated Methodological Holism -- Chapter Outline -- Some Clarifications -- In Conversation with My Previous Books -- Case Studies and Examples -- Detailed Analysis versus Overall Synthesis -- Two Distinctive Features of Using Quotations -- The Use of Neologisms -- PART TWO Joking -- CHAPTER 2. JOKING AND ITS DOUBLE FACES -- The Benignity of Joking -- Joking and the Mind -- Joking, the Mind, and the Psychology of Jokes -- Joking, Black Comedy, and the Question about Human Nature -- Joking and Nature -- Joking, IFF, and the Controversy about Evolution -- Joking and Society -- Joking, and the Politics of Satire -- Joking, Race/Ethnic Humor, and the Power Equation -- Joking and Culture -- Joking, Flatulence Humor, and the Culture of Shifting Blame -- The Techniques of Joking, and the Cultural Factor -- The Malignity of Joking -- PART THREE Laughing -- CHAPTER 3. LAUGHING AND ITS DUAL FACETS.The Joy of Laughing -- Laughing and the Mind -- Laughing, Health, and the Dark Sides -- Laughing, Therapy, and the Debate in Gelotology -- Laughing and Nature -- Laughing, Animals, and the Contentious Comparison -- Laughing, Animals, and the Evolutionary Claim -- Laughing and Society -- Laughing, and the Dispute about Social Functions -- Laughing and Culture -- Laughing, Writers, and the Role of Intellectual Culture -- Laughing, Death, and the Coverage in Popular Culture -- The Sorrow of Laughing -- PART FOUR Conclusion -- CHAPTER 4. CONCLUSION - THE FUTURE OF HUMOR -- Beyond Joking and Laughing -- 1st Thesis: The Absoluteness-Relativeness Principle -- 2nd Thesis: The Predictability-Unpredictability Principle -- 3rd Thesis: The Explicability-Inexplicability Principle -- 4th Thesis: The Preciseness-Vagueness Principle -- 5th Thesis: The Simpleness-Complicatedness Principle -- 6th Thesis: The Openness-Hiddenness Principle -- 7th Thesis: The Denseness-Emptiness Principle -- 8th Thesis: The Slowness-Quickness Principle -- 9th Thesis: The Expansion-Contraction Principle -- 10th Thesis: The Theory-Praxis Principle -- 11th Thesis: The Convention-5ovelty Principle -- 12th Thesis: The Evolution-Transformation Principle -- 13th Thesis: The Symmetry-Asymmetry Principle -- 14th Thesis: The Softness-Hardness Principle -- 15th Thesis: The Seriousness-Playfulness Principle -- 16th Thesis: The Regression-Progression Principle -- 17th Thesis: The Same-Difference Principle -- 18th Thesis: The Post-Human Rendition -- Towards the Post-Human Rendition -- Four Great Future Transformations of Humor -- Enormous Implications -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.This book provides an alternative (better) way to understand the future of humor, especially in the dialectic context of joking and laughing while learning from different approaches in the literature but without favoring any one of them (nor integrating them, since they are not necessarily compatible with each other). Thus, this book offers a new theory (that is, the metamorphic theory of humor) to go beyond the existing approaches in the literature on humor in a novel way."Wit and humorJokingLaughterWit and humor.Joking.Laughter.808.7Baofu Peter1611821MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910965670203321The future of post-human humor4476865UNINA