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16508334 No.16508334 [Reply] [Original]

What are some books on the philosophy of humour? I've only read Bergson's Laughter and I also laugh regularly

>> No.16508343
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16508343

I haven't laughed for 5 years.

>> No.16508361

>>16508343
Go see the great clown Pagliacci, I heard he's at this board right now. That should fix you

>> No.16509560

>>16508334
Freud, Sigmund. "Wit and its Relation to the Unconscious"
Eagleton, Terry. "Humor"
Critchley, Simon. "On Humor"

Anons please suggest more

>> No.16509564

>>16508334
Alenka Zupancic - The Odd One In

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>>16508343
>honk honk
I was reading a great book about an immortal dog the other day. It was impossible to put down.

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*drops*

>> No.16509584

Aristotle has an fantastic book on comedy if you have access to the Vatican library.

>> No.16509625

>>16508334
Hm... Philosophy of humour. Is it not the subversion of the expectation? The revelation of absurdity? The bodily antidote to eternal suffering? Having the capacity to laugh at oneself is a high virtue. Having the capacity to laugh with others is a necessity.

>> No.16509650

>>16508334
The most robust theory of humor in my opinion is percean semiotics, specifically pragmatics and semantics.

Humor is where two ritual scripts exist simultaneously and laughter occurs when the expected script is found to be the alternative instead.

>> No.16509668

koestlers act of creation

>> No.16509686

>>16509625
What would a monistic one be?

>> No.16509710

>>16508334
Schopenhauer on humor

>> No.16509776

>>16509625
Please suggest some books on these.

>> No.16509857

>>16509776
I'm not sure. Everything I know that is humor related has come from life and culture. Perhaps I should widen my horizon to incorporate it lol.

>> No.16509864

>>16509686
Us! lol

>> No.16511071

Various aphorisms of Nietzsche's (in Dawn, Gay Science, BGE, etc.)

>> No.16511086

>>16508361
but anon, I am Pagliacci!

>> No.16511334

Reminder that poop and peepee humor will always ben funny no matter what

>> No.16511341

>>16511334
i love asking friends during a serious conversation that bores me if they prefer poop or peepee, it always lighten up my mood to see their desperate face

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>>16508334
Hegel has some interesting things to say in the aesthetics
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hegel-aesthetics/#ParForArt

>> No.16511647

>>16508334
>and I also laugh regularly
kek