The Future of Post-Human Humor : a Preface to a New Theory of Joking and Laughing

The Future of Post-Human Humor : a Preface to a New Theory of Joking and Laughing / Peter Baofu.

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Main Author: Baofu, Peter
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge International Science Pub., 2011.
Subjects:
Wit and humor > Philosophy.
Joking > Philosophy.
Laughter > Philosophy.
PSYCHOLOGY > Emotions.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Emotions.
Wit and humor > Philosophy
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Table of Contents:
  • 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 â€? 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 â€? 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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