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The Future of Post-Human Humor : a Preface to a New Theory of Joking and Laughing / Peter Baofu.
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Baofu, Peter
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eBook
Language:
English
Published:
Cambridge :
Cambridge International Science Pub.,
2011.
Subjects:
Wit and humor
>
Philosophy.
Joking
>
Philosophy.
Laughter
>
Philosophy.
PSYCHOLOGY
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Emotions.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS
>
Emotions.
Wit and humor
>
Philosophy
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CONTENTS
Part One: Introduction
Part Two: Joking
Part Three: Laughing
Part Four: Conclusion
TABLES
FOREWORD
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
ABBREVIATIONS
PART ONE â€Ø Introduction
CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION � THE FUN OF HUMOR
Humor to Be, or ot to Be, a Frog Can
Humor in Relation to Joking and Laughing
Joking
Laughing
The Theoretical Debate
The Mental Argument
The Natural Argument
The Societal Argument
The Cultural Argument
The Metamorphic Argument
The Metamorphic Theory of Humor
Theory and Meta-TheoryThe Classification of Theory and Meta-Theory
A Unified Theory of Everything
The Logic of Existential Dialectics
The Conception of Existential Dialectics (or Its Ontics)
The Syntax of Existential Dialectics (or Its Ontomethodology and Ontologic)
The Semantics of Existential Dialectics (or Its Ontosemantics)
The Pragmatics of Existential Dialectics (or Its Ontopragmatics)
Sophisticated Methodological Holism
Chapter Outline
Some Clarifications
In Conversation with My Previous Books
Case Studies and Examples
Detailed Analysis versus Overall SynthesisTwo Distinctive Features of Using Quotations
The Use of Neologisms
PART TWO â€Ø Joking
CHAPTER 2. JOKING AND ITS DOUBLE FACES
The Benignity of Joking
Joking and the Mind
Joking, the Mind, and the Psychology of Jokes
Joking, Black Comedy, and the Question about Human Nature
Joking and Nature
Joking, IFF, and the Controversy about Evolution
Joking and Society
Joking, and the Politics of Satire
Joking, Race/Ethnic Humor, and the Power Equation
Joking and Culture
Joking, Flatulence Humor, and the Culture of Shifting BlameThe Techniques of Joking, and the Cultural Factor
The Malignity of Joking
PART THREE â€Ø Laughing
CHAPTER 3. LAUGHING AND ITS DUAL FACETS
The Joy of Laughing
Laughing and the Mind
Laughing, Health, and the Dark Sides
Laughing, Therapy, and the Debate in Gelotology
Laughing and Nature
Laughing, Animals, and the Contentious Comparison
Laughing, Animals, and the Evolutionary Claim
Laughing and Society
Laughing, and the Dispute about Social Functions
Laughing and CultureLaughing, Writers, and the Role of Intellectual Culture
Laughing, Death, and the Coverage in Popular Culture
The Sorrow of Laughing
PART FOUR â€Ø Conclusion
CHAPTER 4. CONCLUSION � THE FUTURE OF HUMOR
Beyond Joking and Laughing
1st Thesis: The Absoluteness-Relativeness Principle
2nd Thesis: The Predictability-Unpredictability Principle
3rd Thesis: The Explicability-Inexplicability Principle
4th Thesis: The Preciseness-Vagueness Principle
5th Thesis: The Simpleness-Complicatedness Principle
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