| Description |
viii, 237 pages : 1 illustration ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Moral psychology of the emotions
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Moral psychology of the emotions.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: The moral psychology of amusement / Brian Robinson -- LOL: what we can learn from forced laughter / Dan Shargel -- An interactional sociolinguist engages the moral psychology of amusement / Catherine Evans Davies -- It's all fun and games until someone gets hurt: amusement's negative influence on moral judgment / Nathan Stout -- Beyond a joke: a defence of comic moralism / Alan Roberts -- This isn't funny: it's serious / Brian Mondy -- The ethics of humor / Tristan Nash -- You shouldn't have laughed: the ethics of derogatory amusement / Andrew Morgan and Ralph DiFranco -- Amused by the outrageous: the morally tempering effect of news satire / Rasmus Rosenberg Larsen and David Sackris -- Eutrapelia and the normativity of social humor / Andrew Jordan and Stephanie Patridge -- Amusement, happiness, and the good life in Plato's Dialogues / Oksana Maksymchuk -- Zhuangzi's moral psychology and humor: the playful liberation of self, others, and society / Carl Helsing -- Starting from the muses: engaging moral imagination through memory's many gifts / Guy Axtell. |
| Summary |
"This volume offers twelve original essays that explore the moral quagmire that is the emotion of amusement. It considers its moral psychology in a range of perspectives, going as far back as ancient Chinese and Greek philosophy up to the most current psychological and sociological findings"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
Comic, The -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Wit and humor -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Laughter -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Comic, The.
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Wit and humor -- Philosophy.
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Laughter.
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| Genre/Form |
Essays.
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| Added Author |
Robinson, Brian, 1978- editor.
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| ISBN |
9781786613295 (hardcover) |
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1786613298 (hardcover) |
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