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...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Introduction (Lydia Moland)
• Chapter 2. The Ends of Art: Hegel on Comedy and Humor from Aristophanes to Jean Paul (Lydia Moland)
• Chapter 3. Schlegel on Humor and Comedy (Katia Hay)
• Chapter 4. Jean Paul on Humor (William Coker)
• Chapter 5. Caricature, Philosophy and the Aesthetics of the Ugly: Some Questions for Rosenkranz (Allen Speight)
• Chapter 6. Humor as Redemption in the Pessimistic Philosophy of Julius Bahnsen (Frederick Beiser)
• Chapter 7. Schopenhauer's Incongruity Theory of Humor (Robert Wicks)
• Chapter 8. 'What Time Is It?....Eternity': Kierkegaard's Socratic Use of Hegel's Insights on Romantic Humor (Marcia Robinson)
• Chapter 9. Jest as Humility: Kierkegaard and the Possibility of Virtue (John Lippitt)
• Chapter 10. The Divine Hanswurst: Nietzsche on Laughter and Comedy (Matthew Meyer)
• Chapter 11. Bergson's On Laughter (Keith Ansell-Pearson).