Volume 3 Laughing Matters: Prolegomena

Giorgio Baruchello; Ársæll Már Arnarsson

Published by De Gruyter 2024

Volume 3 Laughing Matters

Prolegomena

Giorgio Baruchello and Ársæll Már Arnarsson

Part of the multi-volume work Humour and Cruelty

Volume 3/1 in the series De Gruyter Studies in Philosophy of Humor

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110760170

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About this book

The present book addresses the background, rationale, general structure, and particular aims and arguments characterizing our third and last volume about "humor" and "cruelty". A guiding foray is provided into the vast expert literature that can be retrieved in the Western humanities and social sciences on these two terms. Pivotal thinkers and crucial notions are duly identified, highlighted, and examined. Apposite subsidiary references are also included, especially with regard to psychodynamics and clinical psychology, existentialism, feminism, liberalism, Marxism, and representative recent studies in the philosophy of humor and its cognates. The stage is thus set for the exploration and assessment of the conflicts between humor and cruelty unfolding in Part 2 of Volume 3. Being the philosophical terminus of our entire research project, Volume 3 counterbalances, complements, and, occasionally, complexifies the numerous forms of mutual cooperation between humor and cruelty that the preceding Volume 2 had unearthed and discussed.

"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

Author / Editor information

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	VII
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	XI
1 Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2 Making Sense of Humour Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
3 Making Sense of Cruelty Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
4 Making Sense of Polysemy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars and students in philosophy and psychology, institutes, libraries
Pages
- Front matter: 9
- Main content: 245
Keywords: Cruelty; humour; paradox; sex

eBook

Published: November 6, 2023
ISBN: 9783110760170

Hardcover

Published: November 6, 2023
ISBN: 9783110760095