All Too Human Laughter, Humor, and Comedy in Nineteenth-Century Philosophy /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Moland, Lydia L. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Boston Studies in Philosophy, Religion and Public Life, 7
• Subjects: Aesthetics.; Philosophy.; Film genres.; History of Philosophy.; Genre.

This book offers an analysis of humor, comedy, and laughter as philosophical topics in the 19th Century. It traces the introduction of humor as a new aesthetic category inspired by Laurence Sterne's "Tristram Shandy" and shows Sterne's deep influence on German aesthetic theorists...