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  1. Comic relief: a comprehensive philosophy of humor.John Morreall - 2009 - Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.
    Comic Relief: A Comprehensive Philosophy of Humor develops an inclusive theory that integrates psychological, aesthetic, and ethical issues relating to humor Offers an enlightening and accessible foray into the serious business of humor Reveals how standard theories of humor fail to explain its true nature and actually support traditional prejudices against humor as being antisocial, irrational, and foolish Argues that humor’s benefits overlap significantly with those of philosophy Includes a foreword by Robert Mankoff, Cartoon Editor of The New Yorker.
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  • Corpus.Jean-Luc Nancy - 2008 - New York: Fordham University Press.
    The last and most poignant of these essays is The Intruder, Nancys philosophical meditation on his heart transplant.
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  • Bakhtinian thought: an introductory reader.Simon Dentith - 1995 - New York: Routledge.
    Mikhail Bakhtin, and the writers associated with him, are of great importance to the traditions of literary theory and criticism. In particular, his concept of locating utterances in a "dialogical" situation has contributed immensely to theories of linguistics, language, and literature, and philosophy. In Bakhtin Thought , Simon Dentith provides a lucid and approachable introduction to the work of Bahktin and his circle, taking the reader helpfully through the many areas of their thought. Dentith indicates the points of contention, difficulty, (...)
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  • Adorno and the borders of experience: The significance of the nonidentical for a “different” theory of bildung.Christiane Thompson - 2006 - Educational Theory 56 (1):69-87.
    In this essay Christiane Thompson discusses the systematic outcomes of Theodor Adorno's philosophical work for a reworked theory of Bildung. In his essay “Theory of Halbbildung,” Adorno revealed the inevitable failure of Bildung, on the one hand, and the necessity of Bildung, on the other. After having exposed this contradiction, Thompson seeks to analyze Bildung's systematic role by turning to Adorno's reflections on art and metaphysics. Adorno's concept of aesthetic experience hints at the possibility of a more genuine approach to (...)
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  • Learning to laugh at ourselves: Humor, self‐transcendence, and the cultivation of moral virtues.Mordechai Gordon - 2010 - Educational Theory 60 (6):735-749.
    In this essay Mordechai Gordon begins to address the neglect of humor among philosophers of education by focusing on some interesting connections between humor, self‐transcendence, and the development of moral virtues. More specifically, he explores the kind of humor that makes fun of oneself and how it can affect educational encounters. Gordon begins his analysis by discussing the nature and purpose of humor in general, while distinguishing it from laughter and amusement. In the next part of the essay, he takes (...)
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  • Rabelais and His World.Mikhail Bakhtin - unknown
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  • Laughter and pleasure.Karl Pfeifer - 1994 - Humor: International Journal of Humor Research 7 (2):157-172.
    Karl Pfeifer counters the thesis that laughter and pleasure are intimately connected with one another, and addresses the thesis of John Morreall (1982) that a pleasant psyohological shift is a causally necessary condition for laughter. A variety of examples suggesting that laughter does not have to have pleasure as its causal antecedent are presented. Imitative, nervous, hysterical, physiogenic, and acerbic laughter suggest that it is neither incoherent nor implausible to consider laughter as being caused by unpleasant or at least not (...)
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  • The Ignorant Schoolmaster: Five Lessons in Intellectual Emancipation.Jacques Rancière - 1991 - Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press.
    "Recounts the story of Joseph Jacotot" -- vii.
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  • Idea of Prose.Giorgio Agamben - 1995 - State University of New York Press.
    This book consists of prose pieces that find a new form of expression for philosophy, an expression showing the inseparability of idea and prose--the very form of truth.
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  • The Coming Community.Fran Bartkowski & Giorgio Agamben - 1997 - Substance 26 (2):125.
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  • Donner la mort.Jacques Derrida - 1999 - Editions Galilée.
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  • (1 other version)Le rire.H. Bergson - 1900 - Revue de Métaphysique et de Morale 8 (3):2-3.
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