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Humour and Cruelty. Volume 2, Dangerous Liaisons / Giorgio Baruchello, Ársæll Már Arnarsson.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: De Gruyter Studies in Philosophy of Humor ; 2Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2023]Copyright date: ©2023Description: 1 online resource (IX, 483 p.)Content type:
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  • 9783110759778
  • 9783110760002
  • 9783110759846
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 808.701
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  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Preliminary Remarks -- 1 A Tale of Two Concepts -- 2 Humorous Cruelty -- 3 Cruel Humour -- 4 Dangerous Liaisons -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Humor and cruelty can be the best of friends. Many cruel domains have facilitated hilarity of all kinds, whether experienced directly or vicariously, stretching from the torture chamber to the living room—or wherever else a screen is to be found. Conversely, many jests have provided the vehicle with which to dispense cruelty, whether callously or gleefully, in myriad settings, from public events to intimate family dinners. Combining the sources and resources of the humanities and social sciences, this book investigates the mutually supportive liaisons of humor and cruelty. We unearth the brutal, aggressive, and/or sadomasochistic roots of mockery and self-mockery, sarcasm and satire, whilst addressing contemporary debates in humor studies focusing on the thorny ethics and existential challenges arising from the acceptance of the much-appreciated yet seldom innocent channel for human interaction called "humor." "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
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Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Preliminary Remarks -- 1 A Tale of Two Concepts -- 2 Humorous Cruelty -- 3 Cruel Humour -- 4 Dangerous Liaisons -- Bibliography -- Index

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Humor and cruelty can be the best of friends. Many cruel domains have facilitated hilarity of all kinds, whether experienced directly or vicariously, stretching from the torture chamber to the living room—or wherever else a screen is to be found. Conversely, many jests have provided the vehicle with which to dispense cruelty, whether callously or gleefully, in myriad settings, from public events to intimate family dinners. Combining the sources and resources of the humanities and social sciences, this book investigates the mutually supportive liaisons of humor and cruelty. We unearth the brutal, aggressive, and/or sadomasochistic roots of mockery and self-mockery, sarcasm and satire, whilst addressing contemporary debates in humor studies focusing on the thorny ethics and existential challenges arising from the acceptance of the much-appreciated yet seldom innocent channel for human interaction called "humor." "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

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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