Humour and Cruelty. / Volume 3, : Laughing Matters ; Prolegomena / / Giorgio Baruchello, Ársæll Már Arnarsson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2024 Part 1
• VerfasserIn: Baruchello, Giorgio,; Arnarsson, Ársæll Már,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2023]; ©2024
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: De Gruyter Studies in Philosophy of Humor , 3/1
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (IX, 245 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Acknowledgments --; Contents --; 1 Introduction --; 2 Making Sense of Humour --; 3 Making Sense of Cruelty --; 4 Making Sense of Polysemy --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110760170; 9783111332192; 9783111319292; 9783111318912; 9783111319223; 9783111318646
• ISSN: 2699-3481
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110760170
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Giorgio Baruchello, Ársæll Már Arnarsson.

The present book addresses the background, rationale, general structure, and particular aims and arguments characterizing our third and last volume about "humor" and "cruelty". A guiding foray is provided into the vast expert literature that can be retrieved in the Western humanities and social sciences on these two terms. Pivotal thinkers and crucial notions are duly identified, highlighted, and examined. Apposite subsidiary references are also included, especially with regard to psychodynamics and clinical psychology, existentialism, feminism, liberalism, Marxism, and representative recent studies in the philosophy of humor and its cognates. The stage is thus set for the exploration and assessment of the conflicts between humor and cruelty unfolding in Part 2 of Volume 3. Being the philosophical terminus of our entire research project, Volume 3 counterbalances, complements, and, occasionally, complexifies the numerous forms of mutual cooperation between humor and cruelty that the preceding Volume 2 had unearthed and discussed. "Like Aristotle and Dewey, Arnarsson and Baruchello do not define their terms at the outset, but instead they relentlessly pursue the meanings of two ordinary words that everyone vaguely understads to arrive at a critical insight into the concepts these words represent, which are both disparate and interrelated." - Richard Marc Rubin, President, George Santayana Society