Uncivil Mirth: Ridicule in Enlightenment Britain [Book Review]

British Journal for the History of Philosophy 31 (3):564-568 (2022)
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In Uncivil Mirth, Ross Carroll skilfully draws our attention to the Enlightenment debate in Britain on the “politics of ridicule” that questions the virtue or effectiveness of, broadly, laughing, j...

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10.1080/09608788.2022.2152425

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