Volume 2 Dangerous Liaisons

Giorgio Baruchello; Ársæll Már Arnarsson

Published by De Gruyter 2023

Volume 2 Dangerous Liaisons

Giorgio Baruchello and Ársæll Már Arnarsson

Part of the multi-volume work Humour and Cruelty

Volume 2 in the series De Gruyter Studies in Philosophy of Humor

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110759846

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About this book

Humor and cruelty can be the best of friends. Many cruel domains have facilitated hilarity of all kinds, whether experienced directly or vicariously, stretching from the torture chamber to the living room—or wherever else a screen is to be found. Conversely, many jests have provided the vehicle with which to dispense cruelty, whether callously or gleefully, in myriad settings, from public events to intimate family dinners. Combining the sources and resources of the humanities and social sciences, this book investigates the mutually supportive liaisons of humor and cruelty. We unearth the brutal, aggressive, and/or sadomasochistic roots of mockery and self-mockery, sarcasm and satire, whilst addressing contemporary debates in humor studies focusing on the thorny ethics and existential challenges arising from the acceptance of the much-appreciated yet seldom innocent channel for human interaction called "humor."

"Like Aristotle and Dewey, Arnarsson and Baruchello do not define their terms at the outset, but instead they relentlessly pursue the meanings of two ordinary words that everyone vaguely understads to arrive at a critical insight into the concepts these words represent, which are both disparate and interrelated." - Richard Marc Rubin, President, George Santayana Society

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Giorgio Baruchello, University of Akureyri, Akureyri, Iceland; Ársæll Már Arnarsson, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Preliminary Remarks Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1 A Tale of Two Concepts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
2 Humorous Cruelty Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	157
3 Cruel Humour Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	301
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Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars and students in philosophy and psychology, institutes, libraries
Pages
- Front matter: 9
- Main content: 483
Illustrations
- Coloured Illustrations: 1
Keywords: Cruelty; humour; paradox; sex

eBook

Published: October 24, 2023
ISBN: 9783110759846

Hardcover

Published: October 24, 2023
ISBN: 9783110759778