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Giorgio Baruchello; Ársæll Már Arnarsson: Humour and Cruelty / Laughing Matters

Theses and Discussions
Buch | Hardcover
XII, 416 Seiten
2023
De Gruyter (Verlag)
978-3-11-125455-5 (ISBN)

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Giorgio Baruchello; Ársæll Már Arnarsson: Humour and Cruelty / Laughing Matters - Giorgio Baruchello, Ársæll Már Arnarsson
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Part 2 of Volume 3 addresses in detail the conflicts between humor and cruelty, i.e., how cruelty can be unleashed against humor and, conversely, humor can be utilized against cruelty. Potent enmities to mirth and jollity are retrieved from a variety of socio-historical contexts, ranging from Europe's medieval monasteries to the 2015 Charlie Hebdo massacre. Special attention is paid to the cruel humor and humorous cruelty arising thereof, insofar as such phenomena can reveal critical aspects of today's neoliberal socio-economic order. In parallel, settings where humor has been used as an instrument to cope with suffered cruelty, whether natural or human in origin, are also retrieved and discussed. These also vary greatly and encompass domains such as hospital wards, 20th-century Jewish ghettoes, and contemporary funeral homes. A set of concluding reflections is then offered on the psychological, theological, ethical, and metaphysical roots of humor-and its cruel rejection.

"Like Aristotle and Dewey, Arnarsson and Baruchello do not define their terms at the outset, but instead they relentlessly pursue the meanings of two ordinary words that everyone vaguely understads to arrive at a critical insight into the concepts these words represent, which are both disparate and interrelated." - Richard Marc Rubin, President, George Santayana Society

lt;p>Giorgio Baruchello, University of Akureyri, Akureyri, Iceland; Ársæll Már Arnarsson, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie De Gruyter Studies in Philosophy of Humor ; 3/2
Giorgio Baruchello; Ársæll Már Arnarsson: Humour and Cruelty ; Volume 3
Verlagsort Berlin/Boston
Sprache englisch
Maße 155 x 230 mm
Gewicht 732 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie der Neuzeit
Schlagworte cruelty • Grausamkeit • Humor • Humour • Paradox • Sex
ISBN-10 3-11-125455-0 / 3111254550
ISBN-13 978-3-11-125455-5 / 9783111254555
Zustand Neuware
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