Humor and the good life in modern philosophy : Shaftesbury, Hamann, Kierkegaard /
"An exploration of philosophical and religious ideas about humor in modern philosophy and their secular implications"--Provided by publisher
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Albany, NY :
SUNY Press,
2014
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Table of Contents:
- List of Abbreviations; Works by Anthony Ashley Cooper Shaftesbury; Works by Søren Kierkegaard; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1 Shaftesbury: Ridicule as the Test of Truth; The Good Life; Virtue; Enthusiasm; Beauty; The Comic; The Tragic and the Comic; Good Humor; Ridicule; Ridicule and Truth; Applying Ridicule; Humor and Wit; Humor and Enthusiasm; Humor in Inner Dialogue; Humor and Wit in Philosophic Conversation; Humor and Wit in Philosophic Writing; Concluding Remarks: Humor, Good Humor, Ridicule, and the Shaftesburean Good Life; Ridicule as the Test of Truth.
- Humor and Good Humor as Habilitating TruthHumor as Effective Criticism; Humor as the Mark of Rationality; Intermezzo Hamann: Humor and Irony as Categories of Understanding; Humor and Irony; Chapter 2 Kierkegaard: Humor as Philosophy at its Best; The Good Life; Subjective Thinking; The Human Telos; Becoming a Self; The Comic; The Comic as Contradiction; The Comic and the Tragic; ThE Comic in Communication; The Comic's Legitimacy; Irony; Irony as a Life-View; Irony as a Mask; Irony as a Tool; Irony as Lower than Humor; Irony as a Defining Characteristic of Kierkegaard; Humor.
- Humor as Intrinsic to ChristianityHumor as a Life-View; Humor at the Boundary of Religion; Humor as a Mask; Concluding Remarks: the Comic and Humor in the Kierkegaardian Good Life; The Comic's Role in Inwardness; Laughing Well is Living Well; Kierkegaard's Contribution; Chapter 3 Humor and the Good Life; The Comic and the Tragic; The Tragic; The Comic; Tragedy and Comedy; Theories of Humor; Enjoying Incongruities; Humor's Benefits; Self-Referential Humor; Humor; The Sense of Humor; Self-Knowledge, Conflict Awareness, and Deliberation; Living with Irresolvable Conflict; Ridicule.
- New Identity ResolutionCognitive Integration Resolution; The Good Life; Notes; Bibliography; Works by Shaftesbury; Works by Hamann; Works by Kierkegaard; References; Index.
