All too human : laughter, humor, and comedy in nineteenth-century philosophy /: laughter, humor, and comedy in nineteenth-century philosophy. ([2018])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Lydia L. Moland, editor.
• Editors: Moland, Lydia L
• Contents: Intro; Editor's Acknowledgments; Contents; List of Contributors; Chapter 1: Introduction: Taking Laughter Seriously in Nineteenth-Century Philosophy; 1.1 Themes in the History of Laughter from Plato to Hobbes; 1.2 Kant, Schiller, and the German Age of Aesthetics; 1.3 Alienation, Art, and Humor: Post-Kantian Aesthetics and the Sterne Revolution; 1.4 Humor and the Human Condition; 1.5 Humor from Content to Form and Back Again; 1.6 Conclusion; References; Chapter 2: Reconciling Laughter: Hegel on Comedy and Humor; 2.1 Hegel's System and Art's Mission 2.2 Comedy and the Collapse of the Classical World2.3 The Dissolution of Romantic Art: Objective Imitation and Subjective Humor; 2.4 The Persistence of Art: Genre Painting and Objective Humor; 2.5 The Future of Art: Modern Comedy and Objective Humor; References; Chapter 3: It's Tragic, But That's Great: K. W. F. Solger and Humor as the Key to Metaphysics; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 It's Tragic, It's Beautiful; 3.3 Erwin: Through the Looking Glass?; 3.4 Ceci n'est pas Hegel; References; Chapter 4: Jean Paul's Lunacy, or Humor as Trans-Critique; 4.1 The Split Begins: Kant and Rousseau 4.2 Jean Paul and Philosophy: The Modernity of Humor4.3 Polarity: From Plato to the Novel; 4.4 Suspension of Disbelief: Die Unsichtbare Loge; 4.5 The Sublime, Humor and Modern Dialectic; 4.6 Bayreuth versus Jena: The Polemic with Early Romanticism; 4.7 Conclusion: Is there a Politics of Humor?; References; Chapter 5: Caricature, Philosophy and the "Aesthetics of the Ugly": Some Questions for Rosenkranz; 5.1 Karl Rosenkranz and The Aesthetics of Ugliness; 5.2 The Philosophy of Caricature; 5.3 The Caricature of Philosophy 5.4 (Aesthetic, Political and Religious) Questions for Rosenkranz' AccountReferences; Chapter 6: Arthur Schopenhauer: Humor and the Pitiable Human Condition; 6.1 Schopenhauer's Theory of What is Laughable; 6.2 Laughter, Crying, Music, and the Pitiable Human Condition; 6.3 Schopenhauerian versus Nietzschean Laughter; 6.4 Concluding Thoughts; References; Chapter 7: Humor as Redemption in the Pessimistic Philosophy of Julius Bahnsen; 7.1 Humor and Pessimism; 7.2 Person and Life; 7.3 His Philosophy; References Chapter 8: 'What Time Is It? . . . . Eternity': Kierkegaard's Socratic Use of Hegel's Insights on Romantic Humor8.1 Kierkegaard and Hegel; 8.2 The Meaning and the Problem of the Aesthetic in Kierkegaard's Corpus; 8.3 Kierkegaard as Romantic Humorist: The Poet-Gadfly of Danish Christendom; 8.4 Humor as an Anti-Aesthetic Aesthetic; 8.5 Abbreviations of Kierkegaard's Published Works; References; Chapter 9: Jest as Humility: Kierkegaard and the Limits of Earnestness; 9.1 Introduction; 9.2 Jest and Earnestness; 9.3 Jest and Infinite Resignation; 9.4 Jest as Humility: But What Kind of Humility?
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Springer
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 128.3; Philosophy; Comedy -- Philosophy; Laughter -- Philosophy; Wit and humor -- Philosophy; Philosophy, Modern -- 19th century; PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Humanism; Philosophy -- History & Surveys -- General; Performing Arts -- Film & Video -- General; History of Western philosophy; Film: styles & genres; Aesthetics; Philosophy (General); Film genres; Philosophy -- Aesthetics; Philosophy: aesthetics; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319913315
• Related ISBNs: 331991331X; 9783319913308; 3319913301
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed August 29, 2018).
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