Philosophy of Humour

New Perspectives
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-90-04-54880-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 389, 186 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 455 g

Reihe: Value Inquiry Book Series

This volume aims to reignite interest in a sorely neglected field within philosophy: the philosophy of humour. Indeed, although humour, jokes and laughter make up a quintessentially human domain of extreme universal importance, it has not received the sustained and involved attention and investigation that it merits. This volume draws on theories both distant and more nearby in order to contemporize the discussion into the 21st century, with each of the ten contributions demonstrating just how many perspectives and conversations are to be had, both on theoretical and concrete levels, now and going forward.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

O’Shiel, Daniel

Bachmetjevas, Viktoras

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Sachbuch
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophie des Geistes, Neurophilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik
• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Humor

Über Autor(innen)

Daniel O’Shiel is an independent researcher and teacher in philosophy, with main expertise and interests in phenomenology, existentialism, philosophical anthropology and philosophy of technology. Amongst his publications are two books entitled Sartre and Magic (2019) and The Phenomenology of Virtual Technology (2022).

Viktoras Bachmetjevas is an Associate Professor at Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas, Lithuania. He works in the field of continental ethics, with special interest in its intersections with philosophy of religion. He has published on Kierkegaard, Levinas and 20th-century French philosophy.