Redeeming laughter : the comic dimension of human experience /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Berger, Peter L., 1929-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Walter de Gruyter, [1997]
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Table of Contents:
  • Self-Serving Explanations and Unsolicited Compliments
  • The Comic Intrusion
  • Philosophers of the Comic, and the Comedy of Philosophy
  • Laughing Monks: A Very Brief Sinitic Interlude
  • Homo Ridens: Physiology and Psychology
  • Homo Ridiculus: Social Constructions of the Comic
  • Interlude: Brief Reflections on Jewish Humor
  • The Comic as Diversion: Benign Humor
  • The Comic as Consolation: Tragicomedy
  • The Comic as Game of Intellect: Wit
  • The Comic as Weapon: Satire
  • Interlude: The Eternal Return of Folly
  • The Folly of Redemption
  • Interlude: On Grim Theologians
  • The Comic as a Signal of Transcendence.