Laughter in Eastern and Western Philosophies

Hans-Georg Moeller; Günter Wohlfart

doi:10.5771/9783495860380

Summary

This anthology looks at laughter through intercultural and interdisciplinary perspectives. It focuses on humoristic aspects of East-Asian philosophies such as Daoism and Zen Buddhism as well as on the use of irony and wit by Western authors ranging from ancient Greece to contemporary Newfoundland.

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 2014
ISBN-Print: 978-3-495-48385-5
ISBN-Online: 978-3-495-86038-0
Publisher: Karl Alber, Baden-Baden
Series: Welten der Philosophie
Volume: 3
Language: English
Pages: 240
Product type: Edited Book

Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis No access Pages 1 - 6
Contents No access Pages 7 - 8
Introduction No access Pages 9 - 15 Hans-Georg Moeller
1. 1. Introduction No access
  2. Terminological analysis No access
  3. Contemptuous laughter and its ethical background No access
  4. The interplay between the tragic and the comic No access
  5. The Sage as an automatic being No access
  6. Wit or verbally oriented humour No access
  7. Final remarks No access
2. 1. Zhuangzi is laughing while Confucians are crying No access
  2. Singing and dancing as the expressions of emotions No access
  3. Why not a laughing Confucian? No access
3. 1. Perspectives on fish No access
  2. Foolish birds laugh No access
  3. Laughing at oxen No access
  4. Nothing to say No access
  5. Fools laugh at fools No access
4. 1. Conclusion No access
5. The Ridiculousness of Attachment in the Journey to the Wes No access
6. »Why Do Birds Shit on Buddha’s Head?« No access
7. 1. Introduction No access
  2. 1. Huiyuan and »Three Laughs at Tiger Creek« No access
  3. 2. Hanshan No access
  4. 3. The Laughing Buddha No access
  5. 4. Laughing Sutra No access
8. 1. Appendix: One Haikai Poem, Seventeen Times. The Problem of Translation No access
9. 1. Being double No access
  2. The pratfalls of priests No access
  3. The physicality of physicians No access
  4. Inner jogging No access
1. 1. Introduction No access
  2. Greek texts No access
  3. Latin texts No access
  4. Conclusion No access
2. »Great Laughter was in Heaven«: Roots and Repercussions of a Literary Motif No access
3. Nietzsche’s Nascent Laughter No access
4. 1. Introduction No access
  2. Gesture over Gleichnis No access
  3. Bring on the fools: Comedy amidst horror No access
  4. Use of nothing No access
  5. Historico-philosophical shame that is friendly to fools, and outlasts culture by profaning it No access
5. 1. Introduction No access
  2. Codco No access
  3. Faustus Bidgood No access
  4. The King of Fun No access
  5. Laughing at yourself No access
  6. Gesture No access
  7. Desubjectification No access
1. 1. Introduction No access
  2. Socrates: Laughter in Erotic Innuendos No access
  3. Zhuang Zi A practico-cynical laughter No access
  4. Siddhartha: A spiritual-intuitive humor No access
  5. Analysis No access
2. 1. Preface: Kantian prolegomena No access
  2. Main part: Some remarks on »enlightenment« No access
List of Contributors No access Pages 233 - 240