Redeeming laughter : the comic dimension of human experience / Peter L. Berger.
Publisher: New York : Walter de Gruyter, [1997]Copyright date: �1997Description: 1 online resource (236 pages)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9783110810660 (e-book)
- 9783110155624
- 233 21
- BR115.C63 B47 1997eb
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Includes bibliographical references.
Self-Serving Explanations and Unsolicited Compliments -- The Comic Intrusion -- Philosophers of the Comic, and the Comedy of Philosophy -- Laughing Monks: A Very Brief Sinitic Interlude -- Homo Ridens: Physiology and Psychology -- Homo Ridiculus: Social Constructions of the Comic -- Interlude: Brief Reflections on Jewish Humor -- The Comic as Diversion: Benign Humor -- The Comic as Consolation: Tragicomedy -- The Comic as Game of Intellect: Wit -- The Comic as Weapon: Satire -- Interlude: The Eternal Return of Folly -- The Folly of Redemption -- Interlude: On Grim Theologians -- The Comic as a Signal of Transcendence.
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