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The morality of laughter / F.H. Buckley.
LIBRA BH301.C7 B83 2003
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Buckley, F. H. (Francis H.), 1948-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Laughter--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Laughter.
- Comic, The--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Comic, The.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 240 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2003]
- Summary:
- In this scholarly yet entertaining treatment on a human reaction we often take for granted, the author offers a profound argument: that laughter compels us to answer the question: "How should I live?"
- Contents:
- Laughter as superiority
- The elements of laughter
- The one necessary thing
- Objectives to the normative thesis
- Comic virtues and vices
- The social virtues
- The charismatic virtues
- Machine law
- Machine scholarship
- Machine art and machine cities
- The battle of the norms
- Resistance to laughter
- The sociability thesis
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-233) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0472098187
- OCLC:
- 50755795
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