The moral psychology of amusement. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Brian Robinson.
• Editors: Robinson, Brian, 1978-
• Contents: <span style="font-weight:bold;">Part I – The Nature of Amusement / 1. Splitting Guts: Amusement, Bemusement, and the Moral Psychology of Shame <span style="font-style:italic;">Lauren Olin / 2. LOL: What we can learn from insincere laughter <span style="font-style:italic;">Dan Shargel / 3. Beyond a Joke: A Defence of Comic Moralism <span style="font-style:italic;">Alan Roberts / 4. That’s Not Funny <span style="font-style:italic;">Brian Mondy / <span style="font-weight:bold;">Part II – The Ethics of Amusement / 5. You Shouldn’t Have Laughed! The Ethics of Derogatory Amusement <span style="font-style:italic;">Andrew Morgan & Ralph DiFranco / 6. The Ethics of Comedy <span style="font-style:italic;">Tristan Nash / 7. Resisting and Resistant Amusement <span style="font-style:italic;">Corwin Aragon / 8. Amused by the Outrageous: The Morally Tempering Effect of News Satire <span style="font-style:italic;">Rasmus Rosenberg Larsen & David Sackris / 9. Wit as a Social Virtue <span style="font-style:italic;">Andrew Jordan & Stephanie Patridge / 10. It’s All Fun and Games until Someone Gets Hurt: Amusement’s Negative Influence on Moral Judgment <span style="font-style:italic;">Nathan Stout / <span style="font-weight:bold;">Part III – Ancient Perspectives on Amusement <span style="font-style:italic;"> / <span style="font-style:italic;"> 11. Plato on the Value of Amusement <span style="font-style:italic;">Oksana Maksymchuk / 12. Zhuangzi’s Moral Psychology and Humor: The Playful Liberation of Self, Others, and Society <span style="font-style:italic;">Carl Joseph Helsing / 13. Engaging the Moral Imagination: Amusements and the Emotional Functions of Remembering and Forgetting <span style="font-style:italic;">Guy Axtell
• Publisher Details: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 179; Comic, The -- Moral and ethical aspects; Wit and humor -- Moral and ethical aspects; Laughter -- Moral and ethical aspects; Comic, The; Wit and humor -- Philosophy; Laughter
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781786613301
• Related ISBNs: 9781786613295
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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