All Too Human

Laughter, Humor, and Comedy in Nineteenth-Century Philosophy

AvLydia L. Moland

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

Del 7 i serien Boston Studies in Philosophy, Religion and Public Life

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Beskrivning

This book offers an analysis of humor, comedy, and laughter as philosophical topics in the 19th Century. It traces the introduction of humor as a new aesthetic category inspired by Laurence Sterne’s "Tristram Shandy" and shows Sterne’s deep influence on German aesthetic theorists of this period.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2019-02-08
Mått:155 x 235 x 12 mm
Vikt:330 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Boston Studies in Philosophy, Religion and Public Life
Antal sidor:198
Förlag:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN:9783030082277

Utforska kategorier

Filosofiska discipliner inom Filosofi och religion
Film inom Kultur

Mer om författaren

Lydia L. Moland is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Colby College. She is the author of "Hegel on Political Identity: Patriotism, National Identity, Cosmopolitanism" and of numerous articles on Hegel’s political philosophy and philosophy of art. She has been a recipient of fellowships from the American Academy of Berlin, the DAAD, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1. Introduction (Lydia Moland).- Chapter 2. The Ends of Art: Hegel on Comedy and Humor from Aristophanes to Jean Paul (Lydia Moland).- Chapter 3. Schlegel on Humor and Comedy (Katia Hay).- Chapter 4. Jean Paul on Humor (William Coker).- Chapter 5. Caricature, Philosophy and the Aesthetics of the Ugly: Some Questions for Rosenkranz (Allen Speight).- Chapter 6. Humor as Redemption in the Pessimistic Philosophy of Julius Bahnsen (Frederick Beiser).- Chapter 7. Schopenhauer’s Incongruity Theory of Humor (Robert Wicks).- Chapter 8. ‘What Time Is It?....Eternity’: Kierkegaard’s Socratic Use of Hegel’s Insights on Romantic Humor (Marcia Robinson).- Chapter 9. Jest as Humility: Kierkegaard and the Possibility of Virtue (John Lippitt).- Chapter 10. The Divine Hanswurst: Nietzsche on Laughter and Comedy (Matthew Meyer).- Chapter 11. Bergson’s On Laughter (Keith Ansell-Pearson).