| Description |
1 online resource (236 pages) |
| Contents |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 13, 2013) |
| Subject |
Comedy -- Religious aspects
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Wit and humor -- Religious aspects.
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Wit and humor -- Religious aspects
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783110810660 |
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3110810662 |
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3110155621 |
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9783110155624 |
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