The Virtue of Wit
Humor, Social Connection, and Flourishing- Autor:innen:
- Verlag:
- 2024
Zusammenfassung
In The Virtue of Wit: Humor, Social Connection, and Flourishing, Clair Morrissey argues that wit is a form of social ingenuity, an aptitude for building and maintaining human connection. Her novel account of wit understands it as the capacity for joining people in feeling through playful, amusing creativity with words and behaviors. In animating and enlivening our everyday shared social landscape, exercising wit is partially constitutive of living a good human life. Through analysis of the history of philosophical treatments of wit and related concepts, contemporary empirical and theoretical research on humor, and examples drawn from across the narrative arts and standup comedy, Morrissey argues that wit should be considered a proper moral virtue. Her analysis illuminates how virtue ethicists can embrace a non-ideal ethical framework that centers the joy and flourishing of marginalized or oppressed people. The exercise of wit can play an important role in asserting and celebrating one’s humanity in everyday resistance to oppression.
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Bibliographische Angaben
- Copyrightjahr
- 2024
- ISBN-Print
- 978-1-6669-2966-9
- ISBN-Online
- 978-1-6669-2967-6
- Verlag
- Lexington, Lanham
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Seiten
- 156
- Produkttyp
- Monographie
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Dedication Kein Zugriff
- Contents Kein Zugriff
- Acknowledgments Kein Zugriff
- Structure of the Argument Kein Zugriff
- Methodological Commitments Kein Zugriff
- Notes Kein Zugriff
- Ingenium Kein Zugriff
- Wit and Humor Kein Zugriff
- The Value of Wit: Social Virtue and Healthful, Pleasant Mental State Kein Zugriff
- Notes Kein Zugriff
- Wit as Spontaneous, Playful, Amusing, Small Talk Kein Zugriff
- Wit and Theories of Comic Amusement Kein Zugriff
- Notes Kein Zugriff
- Non-Ideal Moral Theory Kein Zugriff
- Impure Moral Agency Kein Zugriff
- Neo-Aristotelian Virtue Ethics and Feminist Ethics Kein Zugriff
- Eudaimonism Kein Zugriff
- Flourishing Kein Zugriff
- Notes Kein Zugriff
- Contemporary Accounts of Wit as a Virtue Kein Zugriff
- Wit Is a Multifaceted Disposition Kein Zugriff
- Wit Is (Partially) Constitutive of Flourishing Kein Zugriff
- Wit “Gets Something Right” in a Domain Important to Human Life Kein Zugriff
- Two Objections Kein Zugriff
- Notes Kein Zugriff
- Self-Involvement Kein Zugriff
- Self-Protection Kein Zugriff
- Cynicism Kein Zugriff
- Pernicious Connection Kein Zugriff
- Dark Humor Kein Zugriff
- Notes Kein Zugriff
- Notes Kein Zugriff
- Bibliography Kein Zugriff Seiten 139 - 150
- Index Kein Zugriff Seiten 151 - 154
- About the Author Kein Zugriff Seiten 155 - 156





