On humour /

Does humour make us human, or do the cats and dogs laugh along with us? On Humour is a fascinating, beautifully written and funny book on what humour can tell us about being human. Simon Critchley skilfully probes some of the most perennial but least understood aspects of humour, such as our tendenc...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Critchley, Simon, 1960-
Format:	Government Document eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London ; New York : Routledge, 2002.
Series:	Thinking in action.
Subjects:	Wit and humor > History and criticism. Philosophy. Philosophy Wit and Humor. Philosophie. philosophy. PHILOSOPHY > Movements > Humanism. PHILOSOPHY / General PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics PHILOSOPHY / Criticism Wit and humor Criticism, interpretation, etc. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

1. Introduction
2. Is humour human?
3. Laughing at your body : post-colonal theory
4. The laughing machine : a note on Bergson and Wyndham Lewis
5. Foreigners are funny : the ethicity and ethnicity of humour
6. The joke's on all of us : humour as sensus communis
7. Why the super-ego is your amigo : my sense of humour and Freud's.