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1 online resource (xxii, 440 pages) |
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CONTENTS -- Part One: Introduction -- Part Two: Joking -- Part Three: Laughing -- Part Four: Conclusion -- TABLES -- FOREWORD -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- PART ONE â€Ø Introduction -- CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION â€? THE FUN OF HUMOR -- Humor to Be, or ot to Be, a Frog Can -- Humor in Relation to Joking and Laughing -- Joking -- Laughing -- The Theoretical Debate -- The Mental Argument -- The Natural Argument -- The Societal Argument -- The Cultural Argument -- The Metamorphic Argument -- The Metamorphic Theory of Humor |
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Theory and Meta-TheoryThe Classification of Theory and Meta-Theory -- A Unified Theory of Everything -- The Logic of Existential Dialectics -- The Conception of Existential Dialectics (or Its Ontics) -- The Syntax of Existential Dialectics (or Its Ontomethodology and Ontologic) -- The Semantics of Existential Dialectics (or Its Ontosemantics) -- The Pragmatics of Existential Dialectics (or Its Ontopragmatics) -- Sophisticated Methodological Holism -- Chapter Outline -- Some Clarifications -- In Conversation with My Previous Books -- Case Studies and Examples |
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Detailed Analysis versus Overall SynthesisTwo Distinctive Features of Using Quotations -- The Use of Neologisms -- PART TWO â€Ø Joking -- CHAPTER 2. JOKING AND ITS DOUBLE FACES -- The Benignity of Joking -- Joking and the Mind -- Joking, the Mind, and the Psychology of Jokes -- Joking, Black Comedy, and the Question about Human Nature -- Joking and Nature -- Joking, IFF, and the Controversy about Evolution -- Joking and Society -- Joking, and the Politics of Satire -- Joking, Race/Ethnic Humor, and the Power Equation -- Joking and Culture |
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Joking, Flatulence Humor, and the Culture of Shifting BlameThe Techniques of Joking, and the Cultural Factor -- The Malignity of Joking -- PART THREE â€Ø Laughing -- CHAPTER 3. LAUGHING AND ITS DUAL FACETS -- The Joy of Laughing -- Laughing and the Mind -- Laughing, Health, and the Dark Sides -- Laughing, Therapy, and the Debate in Gelotology -- Laughing and Nature -- Laughing, Animals, and the Contentious Comparison -- Laughing, Animals, and the Evolutionary Claim -- Laughing and Society -- Laughing, and the Dispute about Social Functions |
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Laughing and CultureLaughing, Writers, and the Role of Intellectual Culture -- Laughing, Death, and the Coverage in Popular Culture -- The Sorrow of Laughing -- PART FOUR â€Ø Conclusion -- CHAPTER 4. CONCLUSION â€? THE FUTURE OF HUMOR -- Beyond Joking and Laughing -- 1st Thesis: The Absoluteness-Relativeness Principle -- 2nd Thesis: The Predictability-Unpredictability Principle -- 3rd Thesis: The Explicability-Inexplicability Principle -- 4th Thesis: The Preciseness-Vagueness Principle -- 5th Thesis: The Simpleness-Complicatedness Principle |
| Summary |
Annotation Baofu discusses the future of humor, especially in the dialectic context of joking and laughing--while learning from different approaches in the literature but without favoring any one of them. He offers a new theory to go beyond the existing approaches in the literature on humor in a novel way |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 391-403) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Wit and humor -- Philosophy
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Joking -- Philosophy
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Laughter -- Philosophy
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Emotions.
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FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Emotions.
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Wit and humor -- Philosophy
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781907343278 |
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190734327X |
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