The Future of Post-Human Humor : a Preface to a New Theory of Joking and Laughing /
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| 100 | 1 | |a Baofu, Peter. | |
| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The Future of Post-Human Humor : |b a Preface to a New Theory of Joking and Laughing / |c Peter Baofu. |
| 260 | |a Cambridge : |b Cambridge International Science Pub., |c 2011. | ||
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 391-403) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a CONTENTS -- Part One: Introduction -- Part Two: Joking -- Part Three: Laughing -- Part Four: Conclusion -- TABLES -- FOREWORD -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- PART ONE â€Ø Introduction -- CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION â€? THE FUN OF HUMOR -- Humor to Be, or ot to Be, a Frog Can -- Humor in Relation to Joking and Laughing -- Joking -- Laughing -- The Theoretical Debate -- The Mental Argument -- The Natural Argument -- The Societal Argument -- The Cultural Argument -- The Metamorphic Argument -- The Metamorphic Theory of Humor | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Theory and Meta-TheoryThe Classification of Theory and Meta-Theory -- A Unified Theory of Everything -- The Logic of Existential Dialectics -- The Conception of Existential Dialectics (or Its Ontics) -- The Syntax of Existential Dialectics (or Its Ontomethodology and Ontologic) -- The Semantics of Existential Dialectics (or Its Ontosemantics) -- The Pragmatics of Existential Dialectics (or Its Ontopragmatics) -- Sophisticated Methodological Holism -- Chapter Outline -- Some Clarifications -- In Conversation with My Previous Books -- Case Studies and Examples | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Detailed Analysis versus Overall SynthesisTwo Distinctive Features of Using Quotations -- The Use of Neologisms -- PART TWO â€Ø Joking -- CHAPTER 2. JOKING AND ITS DOUBLE FACES -- The Benignity of Joking -- Joking and the Mind -- Joking, the Mind, and the Psychology of Jokes -- Joking, Black Comedy, and the Question about Human Nature -- Joking and Nature -- Joking, IFF, and the Controversy about Evolution -- Joking and Society -- Joking, and the Politics of Satire -- Joking, Race/Ethnic Humor, and the Power Equation -- Joking and Culture | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Joking, Flatulence Humor, and the Culture of Shifting BlameThe Techniques of Joking, and the Cultural Factor -- The Malignity of Joking -- PART THREE â€Ø Laughing -- CHAPTER 3. LAUGHING AND ITS DUAL FACETS -- The Joy of Laughing -- Laughing and the Mind -- Laughing, Health, and the Dark Sides -- Laughing, Therapy, and the Debate in Gelotology -- Laughing and Nature -- Laughing, Animals, and the Contentious Comparison -- Laughing, Animals, and the Evolutionary Claim -- Laughing and Society -- Laughing, and the Dispute about Social Functions | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Laughing and CultureLaughing, Writers, and the Role of Intellectual Culture -- Laughing, Death, and the Coverage in Popular Culture -- The Sorrow of Laughing -- PART FOUR â€Ø Conclusion -- CHAPTER 4. CONCLUSION â€? THE FUTURE OF HUMOR -- Beyond Joking and Laughing -- 1st Thesis: The Absoluteness-Relativeness Principle -- 2nd Thesis: The Predictability-Unpredictability Principle -- 3rd Thesis: The Explicability-Inexplicability Principle -- 4th Thesis: The Preciseness-Vagueness Principle -- 5th Thesis: The Simpleness-Complicatedness Principle | |
| 520 | 8 | |a Annotation |b Baofu discusses the future of humor, especially in the dialectic context of joking and laughing--while learning from different approaches in the literature but without favoring any one of them. He offers a new theory to go beyond the existing approaches in the literature on humor in a novel way. | |
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| 650 | 0 | |a Laughter |x Philosophy. | |
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