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On Humour (Thinking in Action) (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 24 hours | |Short Description for On HumourThis 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, which hopefully is all of us.
Full description- Publisher: ROUTLEDGE
- Published: 31 May 2002
- Format: Paperback 144 pages
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- Categories: Cultural Studies | Philosophy | Western Philosophy: Medieval & Renaissance, C 500 To C 1600 | Philosophy: Aesthetics | Humour
- ISBN 13: 9780415251211 ISBN 10: 0415251214
- Sales rank: 108,032
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Full description for On Humour
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: why is that we mock death with laughter? If humour is uniquely human, why do we laugh at animals so much? Is joking a private matter, or do we share humour? Throughout, On Humour uses arresting examples from antiquity to modernity and from laughing at our bodies to the darker side of humour in racism and sexism. Critchley also draws on writers who have used humour, including Swift, Sterne, Bergson, Beckett and Freud, turning the comical inside out to reveal some delectable insights about what we find funny. Above all, he reveals that the humanity of humour is in being able to laugh at oneself.
