Take My Course, Please! The Philosophy of Humor

Discover what humor is from the perspective of history’s great philosophers.

Topics Covered:

• 1: The Universality of Humor
• 2: The Objectivity of Humor
• 3: The Science of Laughter
• 4: Truth and Humor
• 5: Comedy and Tragedy
• 6: Irony and Truth
• 7: Satires, Parodies, and Spoofs
• 8: Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One: Jokes
• 9: Theories of Humor
• 10: Superiority Theory
• 11: Inferiority Theory
• 12: Play Theory
• 13: Relief Theory
• 14: Incongruity Theory
• 15: Cleverness Theory
• 16: Humor Theory Revisited
• 17: Humor Ethics: Boundaries and Limitations
• 18: Who Can Tell Ethnic Jokes?
• 19: Comic Moralism
• 20: Situational Ethics and Humor
• 21: The Necessity of Humor
• 22: Comedian Ethics
• 23: Socially Progressive Comedy
• 24: Ridiculousness and the Human Condition