Jan Miernowski is the Douglas Kelly Professor of French at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Warsaw. He is the author of La Beauté de la haine: Essais de misologie littéraire and the editor of Early Modern Humanism and Postmodern Antihumanism in Dialogue.

"A major contribution to the ongoing discussion of humanism, this book offers an extremely original study of a very particular form of laughter, a 'joyless laughter' that can be observed in different types of traumatizing or borderline circumstances. In building readings of this laughter into a theory of what Miernowski calls 'epihumanism,' the book also provides a defense and illustration of how the humanities and literary analysis in particular can nourish our current philosophical discussions and cultural debates." — Yves Citton, author of The Ecology of Attention

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Laughing at the Death of Man2. Laughing Animals3. Laughing (Human) Machines4. Machining (Human) Laughter5. Laughing Gods6. Laughing MenEpilogueNotesWorks CitedIndex

Jan Miernowski is the Douglas Kelly Professor of French at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Warsaw. He is the author of La Beauté de la haine: Essais de misologie littéraire and the editor of Early Modern Humanism and Postmodern Antihumanism in Dialogue.

"A major contribution to the ongoing discussion of humanism, this book offers an extremely original study of a very particular form of laughter, a 'joyless laughter' that can be observed in different types of traumatizing or borderline circumstances. In building readings of this laughter into a theory of what Miernowski calls 'epihumanism,' the book also provides a defense and illustration of how the humanities and literary analysis in particular can nourish our current philosophical discussions and cultural debates." — Yves Citton, author of The Ecology of Attention

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Laughing at the Death of Man2. Laughing Animals3. Laughing (Human) Machines4. Machining (Human) Laughter5. Laughing Gods6. Laughing MenEpilogueNotesWorks CitedIndex

Jan Miernowski is the Douglas Kelly Professor of French at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Warsaw. He is the author of La Beauté de la haine: Essais de misologie littéraire and the editor of Early Modern Humanism and Postmodern Antihumanism in Dialogue.

"A major contribution to the ongoing discussion of humanism, this book offers an extremely original study of a very particular form of laughter, a 'joyless laughter' that can be observed in different types of traumatizing or borderline circumstances. In building readings of this laughter into a theory of what Miernowski calls 'epihumanism,' the book also provides a defense and illustration of how the humanities and literary analysis in particular can nourish our current philosophical discussions and cultural debates." — Yves Citton, author of The Ecology of Attention

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Laughing at the Death of Man2. Laughing Animals3. Laughing (Human) Machines4. Machining (Human) Laughter5. Laughing Gods6. Laughing MenEpilogueNotesWorks CitedIndex