On Humour

This is a fascinating and beautifully written book on what philosophy can tell us about humour and about what it is to be human. It will fascinate and intrigue anyone with a sense of humour.

Informationen zum Autor Simon Critchley is Professor of Philosophy and Director for the Centre of Theoretical Studies at the University of Essex. He is the author of Ethics-Politics-Subjectivity (1999) and Very LittleAlmost Nothing (Routledge, 1997). His most recent book is Continental Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction (2001). Klappentext This is a fascinating and beautifully written book on what philosophy can tell us about humour and about what it is to be human. It will fascinate and intrigue anyone with a sense of humour. Zusammenfassung This is a fascinating and beautifully written book on what philosophy can tell us about humour and about what it is to be human. It will fascinate and intrigue anyone with a sense of humour. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Is Humour Human?; Chapter 3 Laughing at Your Body Post-Colonal Theory; Chapter 4 The Laughing Machine a Note on Bergson and Wyndham Lewis; Chapter 5 Foreigners are Funny the Ethicity and Ethnicity of Humour; Chapter 6 The Joke's on All of Us Humour as Sensus Communis; Chapter 7 Why the Super-Ego is Your Amigo My Sense of Humour and Freud's;

Autorentext

Simon Critchley is Professor of Philosophy and Director for the Centre of Theoretical Studies at the University of Essex. He is the author of Ethics-Politics-Subjectivity (1999) and Very LittleAlmost Nothing (Routledge, 1997). His most recent book is Continental Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction (2001).

Inhalt
Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Is Humour Human?; Chapter 3 Laughing at Your Body Post-Colonal Theory; Chapter 4 The Laughing Machine a Note on Bergson and Wyndham Lewis; Chapter 5 Foreigners are Funny the Ethicity and Ethnicity of Humour; Chapter 6 The Joke's on All of Us Humour as Sensus Communis; Chapter 7 Why the Super-Ego is Your Amigo My Sense of Humour and Freud's;