On Humour (Thinking in Action)

✍ Scribed by Simon Critchley

Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2002
Tongue: English
Leaves: 150
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Does humour make us human, or do the cats and dogs laugh along with us? On Humour is a fascinating, beautifully written and funny book on what humour can tell us about being human. Simon Critchley skilfully probes some of the most perennial but least understood aspects of humour, such as our tendency to laugh at animals and our bodies, why we mock death with comedy and why we think it's funny when people act like machines. He also looks at the darker side of humour, as rife in sexism and racism and argues that it is important for reminding us of people we would rather not be.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
1.Introduction
2. Is Humour Human?
3. Laughing at Your Body - Post-Colonial Theory
4. The Laughing Machine - a Note on Bergson and Wyndham Lewis
5. Foreigners are Funny - the Ethicity and Ethnicity of Humour
6. The Joke's on All of Us - Humour as Sensus Communis
7. Why the Super-Ego is Your Amigo - My Sense of Humour and Freud's
Notes
Bibliography
Thanks
Index
THINKING IN ACTION
The Reading Generation [A note in Sindhi]

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