ISBN:
9783111256108
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (XII, 416 p.)
Edition:
Reproduktion Issued also in print
Year of publication:
2024
Series Statement:
De Gruyter Studies in Philosophy of Humor 3/2
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Baruchello, Giorgio Humour and cruelty ; Volume 3, Part 2: Laughing matters: Theses and discussions
DDC:
100
Keywords:
PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern
;
Humor
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
;
Grausamkeit
;
PHILOSOPHY / General
;
HISTORY / General
;
Cruelty
;
humour
;
paradox
;
sex
;
Cruelty
;
humour
Abstract:
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
Note:
Frontmatter
,
Acknowledgments
,
Contents
,
Brief Remarks on Part 2 of Volume 3
,
1 Cruelty Against Humour
,
2 Humour Against Cruelty
,
3 Concluding Remarks
,
Bibliography
,
Index
,
Issued also in print
,
In English
DOI:
10.1515/9783111256108
