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Laughing Matters: Prolegomena

Laughing Matters: Prolegomena

Baruchello, Giorgio
Arnarsson, Ársæll Már

Paperback

Series: de Gruyter Studies in Philosophy of Humor, Book 3

PhilosophyGeneral SociologyGeneral World History

Publisher Price: $21.99

ISBN10: 3112216245
ISBN13: 9783112216248
Publisher: de Gruyter
Published: Jun 30 2025
Pages: 254
Weight: 0.81
Height: 0.58 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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.

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