About this title: On Humour is a fascinating, beautifully written and funny book on what humour can tell us about being human. Simon Critchley skilfully probes some of the most perennial but least understood aspects of humour: why is that we mock death with laughter? If humour is uniquely human, why do we laugh at animals so much? Is joking a private matter, or do ...
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Routledge
Date Published: 2002-07-01
ISBN-13:9780415251211ISBN:0415251214
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Taylor & Francis(Routledge)
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780415251211ISBN:0415251214
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 7.795 by 5.079 inches. This is a fascinating and beautifully written book on what philosophy can tell us about humour and about what it is to be human. it will fascinate and intrigue anyone with a sense of humour. does humour make us human, or do the cats and dogs laugh along with us? on humour is a fascinating, beautifully written and funny book on what humour can tell us about being human. simon critchley skilfully probes some of the most perennial but least understood ... read more
Description: New. 0415251214. FLAWLESS COPY, PRISTINE, NEVER OPENED--160 pages; clean and crisp, tight and bright pages, with no writing or markings to the text. --TABLE OF CONTENTS: 1. Introduction * 2. Is humour human? * 3. Laughing at your body-post-colonial theory * 4. The laughing machine-a note on Bergson and Wyndham Lewis * 5. Foreigners are funny-the ethicity and ethnicity of humour * 6. The joke's on all of us-Humour as sensus communis * 7. Why the super-ego is your amigo-My sense of humour and ... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780415251211ISBN:0415251214
Description: New. "On Humour" is a fascinating and beautifully written book on what philosophy can tell us about humor and about what it is to be human. Simon Critchley probes some of the most perennial features of humor, such as our tendency to laugh at animals and o... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780415251211ISBN:0415251214
Description: New. This is a fascinating and beautifully written book on what philosophy can tell us about humour and about what it is to be human. It will fascinate and intrigue anyone with a sense of humour, which hopefully is all of us. read more
"A bit pretentious sounding, through use of (name of person who created idea)+ -ian, -ism, and strange vocab like "bathetic".. that and it is basically a plagiarism of John Allen Paulos's "Mathematics and Humor"
Despite that it is still a well written, clever and challenging book on a subject that is hard to write about. very insightful and well worth the effort."
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