Review of Simon Critchley on Humour, Culture Machine December In the following chapters Critchley identifies and condenses some other major topics in the philosophical and anthropological discussions on humour, including the issue of the constant overstepping of the boundary between the human and the animal in humour; the exploitation of the gap between being a body and having a body (i.e. the distinction between the vulgarity and the bodily dimension of laughter Estimated Reading Time: 9 mins. · On Humour is a fascinating, beautifully written and funny book on what humour can tell us about being human. Simon Critchley skilfully probes some of the most perennial but least understood aspects of humour, such as our tendency to laugh at animals and our bodies, why we mock death with comedy and why. Does humour make us human, or do the cats and dogs laugh along with us?/5(18).
www.doorway.ru Simon Critchley, philosopher and professor, talking about philosophy, comedy, humor, wit, Freud, Superego, and laughter. In this lecture. The Authors@Google program was pleased to welcome philosopher, professor and author Simon Critchley to Google's NY office to discuss his new book "On Humor". Humour views the world awry, bringing us back to the everyday by estranging us from it. This is what I meant above when I claimed that humour provides an oblique. phenomenology of ordinary life. It is a practice that gives us an alien perspective on our practices. It lets us view the world as if we had just landed from another planet.
Simon Critchley's On Humour is a perfect example of how a rational consideration of humor tends to bring what are generally secular and Leftist thinkers into conflict with their own philosophies. Mr. Critchley, adopting John Morreall's framework for the historical theories of humor -- which holds that there are basically three: superiority theory; relief theory; and incongruity theory -- explains them thus. Review of Simon Critchley on Humour, Culture Machine December The Authors@Google program was pleased to welcome philosopher, professor and author Simon Critchley to Google's NY office to discuss his new book "On Humor".
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