Lydia Amir is Visiting Professor of Philosophy at Tufts University, USA. She is the author of Humor and the Good Life: Shaftesbury, Hamann, Kierkegaard (2014), and Rethinking Philosophers' Responsibility (2017). She is the Founding-President of the International Association for the Philosophy of Humor, and editor of the Israeli Journal of Humor Research: An International Journal.

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• IntroductionPrologue: The French Reception of Nietzsche As a Philosopher of Laughter1. Georges Bataille: The Laughter of Ecstasy 2. Gilles Deleuze: The Humor of Affirmation 3. Clément Rosset: The Laughter of Annihilation 4. Concluding Remarks: Additional French Twentieth-Century Views of Laughter

Lydia Amir is Visiting Professor of Philosophy at Tufts University, USA. She is the author of Humor and the Good Life: Shaftesbury, Hamann, Kierkegaard (2014), and Rethinking Philosophers' Responsibility (2017). She is the Founding-President of the International Association for the Philosophy of Humor, and editor of the Israeli Journal of Humor Research: An International Journal.

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• IntroductionPrologue: The French Reception of Nietzsche As a Philosopher of Laughter1. Georges Bataille: The Laughter of Ecstasy 2. Gilles Deleuze: The Humor of Affirmation 3. Clément Rosset: The Laughter of Annihilation 4. Concluding Remarks: Additional French Twentieth-Century Views of Laughter

Lydia Amir is Visiting Professor of Philosophy at Tufts University, USA. She is the author of Humor and the Good Life: Shaftesbury, Hamann, Kierkegaard (2014), and Rethinking Philosophers' Responsibility (2017). She is the Founding-President of the International Association for the Philosophy of Humor, and editor of the Israeli Journal of Humor Research: An International Journal.

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• IntroductionPrologue: The French Reception of Nietzsche As a Philosopher of Laughter1. Georges Bataille: The Laughter of Ecstasy 2. Gilles Deleuze: The Humor of Affirmation 3. Clément Rosset: The Laughter of Annihilation 4. Concluding Remarks: Additional French Twentieth-Century Views of Laughter