Includes bibliographical references (pages 121-124) and index.
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Is Humour Human? -- Laughing at Your Body -- Post-Colonal Theory -- The Laughing Machine -- a Note on Bergson and Wyndham Lewis -- Foreigners are Funny -- the Ethicity and Ethnicity of Humour -- The Joke's on All of Us -- Humour as Sensus Communis -- Why the Super-Ego is Your Amigo -- My Sense of Humour and Freud's.
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Simon Critchley skillfully probes some of the most perennial but least understood features of humour, such as our tendency to laugh at animals and our bodies, why we mock death with comedy and why we think it's funny when people act like machines.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Wit and humor-- History and criticism.
Philosophy.
Wit and Humor.
Humour-- Histoire et critique.
08.36 philosophical anthropology, philosophy of psychology.