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200 14$aThe philosophy of humour$b[electronic resource] /$fPaul McDonald
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215   $a1 online resource (138 p.)
225 1 $aPhilosophy insights
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references.
327   $a""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""
327   $a""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 ""
327   $a""Humour and the Human Predicament""""11. Bibliography ""; ""A Note on the Author ""; "" Humanities Insights ""
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