Redeeming laughter : : the comic dimension of human experience / / Peter L. Berger.
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York : : Walter de Gruyter,, [1997] 1997 |
| Year of Publication: | 1997 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (236 pages) |
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Table of 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.