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| dc.contributor.author | James, Christine | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-09-12T16:31:51Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-09-12T16:31:51Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2019 | |
| dc.identifier.citation | James, C. (2019). Philosophy, Humor, and the Human Condition: Taking Ridicule Seriously. Book Reviews: Palgrave Macmillan, 315–317. https://doi.org/10.1515/phhumyb-2020-0031 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10428/6117 | |
| dc.description | James, Christine (2019). Philosophy, Humor, and the Human Condition: Taking Ridicule Seriously. Book Reviews: Palgrave Macmillan. 1 electronic record (PDF). | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | Over the last few decades, the philosophy of comedy has begun to develop a set of specific questions that have provided a wealth of insights: for example, the ethics of jokes within social and political philosophy; or the incongruity theory of humor within epistemology; or the role of humor in healing and applied bio-ethics; or the cognitive difference between types of humor related to philosophy of mind and neurobiology. What was needed in the literature, and what LydiaAmir achieves in her new book, is a comprehensive view of humor that connects a variety of areas of philosophy in a framework. The conceptual framework that is introduced and developed by Amir is that of the Homo risibilis: not merely the human being as laughing, but the human being who understands their condition, sees the ridiculousness and humor within it, and then transcends that ridiculousness. | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Book Reviews: Palgrave Macmillan | en_US |
| dc.subject | Philosophy, humor, human condition | en_US |
| dc.title | Philosophy, Humor, and the Human Condition: Taking Ridicule Seriously | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |
