Robert R. Clewis

Kant's Humorous Writings (eBook, PDF)

An Illustrated Guide

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

While Kant is commonly regarded as one of the most austere philosophers of all time, this book provides quite a different perspective of the founder of transcendental philosophy. Kant is often thought of as being boring, methodical, and humorless. Yet the thirty jokes and anecdotes collected and illustrated here for the first time reveal a man and a thinker who was deeply interested in how humor and laughter shape how we think, feel, and communicate with fellow human beings.

In addition to a foreword on Kant's theory of humor by Noël Carroll as well as Clewis's informative chapters, Kant's Humorous Writings contains new translations of Kant's jokes, quips, and anecdotes. Each of the thirty excerpts is illustrated and supplemented by historical commentaries which explain their significance.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. November 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350112773
• Artikelnr.: 60125390

Autorenporträt

Robert R. Clewis teaches philosophy and is Associate Director of the Honors Program at Gwynedd Mercy University, USA. He is author of The Kantian Sublime and the Revelation of Freedom (2009), a translator in Kant's Lectures on Anthropology (2012), and editor of Reading Kant's Lectures (2015) and The Sublime Reader (Bloomsbury, 2019).

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Noël Carroll Part One. Kant's Theory of Humor Chapter 1: The
Secret Soul of Kant's Joke Chapter 2: Three Questions about Laughter at
Humor Chapter 3: Kant and the Ethics of Humor Part Two. Jokes Incongruity
Jokes 1. The Merchant's Wig 2. Happy Funeral Mourners 3. Swift Wit 4. Dying
of Good Health 5. £200 6. Of Juice and Justice 7. King Louis' Gate 8.
Thinking with One's Body 9. The Happy Cuckold 10. Full of Bull 11. With
Friends Like These Ethnic and Sexist Jokes and Quips 12. Foam in a Bottle
13. German Fools 14. The Bearded Woman 15. Samuel Johnson's Wife Jokes with
a Point 16. Abelard's Flying Ox 17. Which Way the Wind Blows 18. Philosophy
Detox 19. The Voltaire Bros 20. The Life You Save May Be Your Own Part
Three. Sayings with a Message 21. Ragout, with Wit on the Side 22. Hooped
Skirts and Pruned Trees 23. Heidegger as a Woman 24. There Are No Ugly
Noses 25. A Whale Barrel 26. To Each his Own 27. Pyrrho's Pig: That's What
I'm Talking about 28. Hobson's Choice 29. Sex and Death 30. An Honest Man
Is Hard to Find Appendix: Chapter Summaries Bibliography Index