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All Too Human - Laughter, Humor, and Comedy in Nineteenth-Century Philosophy (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018) Loot Price: R2,880
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All Too Human - Laughter, Humor, and Comedy in Nineteenth-Century Philosophy (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018): Lydia L. Moland

All Too Human - Laughter, Humor, and Comedy in Nineteenth-Century Philosophy (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)

Lydia L. Moland

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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Imprint: Springer International Publishing AG
Country of origin: Switzerland
Series: Boston Studies in Philosophy, Religion and Public Life, 7
Release date: August 2018
First published: 2018
Editors: Lydia L. Moland
Dimensions: 235 x 155mm (L x W)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 198
Edition: 1st ed. 2018
ISBN-13: 978-3-319-91330-8
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Films, cinema > General
Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Aesthetics
Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > General
Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Aesthetics
Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > General
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LSN: 3-319-91330-1
Barcode: 9783319913308

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