TY  - BOOK
AU  - Baruchello,Giorgio
AU  - Arnarsson,Ársæll Már
TI  - Humour and Cruelty. 
T2  - De Gruyter Studies in Philosophy of Humor ,
SN  - 9783111254555
AV  - PR1109 .B378 2024
U1  - 820.8 23
PY  - 2023///]
CY  - Berlin, Boston : 
PB  - De Gruyter, 
KW  - English literature
KW  - Imperialism in literature
KW  - Grausamkeit
KW  - Humor
KW  - Paradox
KW  - Sex
KW  - PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Cruelty
KW  - humour
KW  - paradox
KW  - sex
N1  - Frontmatter --; Acknowledgments --; Contents --; Brief Remarks on Part 2 of Volume 3 --; 1 Cruelty Against Humour --; 2 Humour Against Cruelty --; 3 Concluding Remarks --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111256108
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783111256108
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783111256108/original
ER  -