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All Too Human - Laughter, Humor, and Comedy in Nineteenth-Century Philosophy (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
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All Too Human - Laughter, Humor, and Comedy in Nineteenth-Century Philosophy (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Series: Boston Studies in Philosophy, Religion and Public Life, 7
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This book offers an analysis of humor, comedy, and laughter as
philosophical topics in the 19th Century. It traces the
introduction of humor as a new aesthetic category inspired by
Laurence Sterne's "Tristram Shandy" and shows Sterne's deep
influence on German aesthetic theorists of this period. Through
differentiating humor from comedy, the book suggests important
distinctions within the aesthetic philosophies of G.W.F. Hegel,
Karl Solger, and Jean Paul Richter. The book links Kant's
underdeveloped incongruity theory of laughter to Schopenhauer's
more complete account and identifies humor's place in the
pessimistic philosophy of Julius Bahnsen. It considers how
caricature functioned at the intersection of politics, aesthetics,
and ethics in Karl Rosenkranz's work, and how Kierkegaard and
Nietzsche made humor central not only to their philosophical
content but also to its style. The book concludes with an
explication of French philosopher Henri Bergson's claim that
laughter is a response to mechanical inelasticity.
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