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Katrin Froese - Why Can't Philosophers Laugh? - 9783319550435 - V9783319550435
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Why Can't Philosophers Laugh?

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Description for Why Can't Philosophers Laugh? Hardback. Num Pages: 290 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DS; HBJF; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .

This book analyzes Western and Chinese philosophical texts to determine why laughter and the comic have not been a major part of philosophical discourse. Katrin Froese maintains that many philosophical accounts of laughter try to unearth laughter's purpose, thereby rendering it secondary to the intentional and purposive aspects of human nature that impel us to philosophize. Froese also considers texts that take laughter and the comic as starting points, attempting to philosophize out of laughter rather than merely trying to unearth reasons for laughter. The book proposes that continuously unraveling philosophical assumptions through the comic and laughter may be necessary to live well.

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
Number of pages
290
Condition
New
Number of Pages
227
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319550435
SKU
V9783319550435
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15

About Katrin Froese
Katrin Froese is Professor of Philosophy and Religion at the University of Calgary, Canada. She is the author of three previous books: Rousseau and Nietzsche: Toward an Aesthetic Morality (2001), Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Daoist Thought: Crossing Paths In-Between (2006), and Ethics Unbound: Some Chinese and Western Perspectives on Morality (2013). 

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