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Title

Enjoyment : from laughter to delight in philosophy, literature, the fine arts, and aesthetics / edited by Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka.

Publication

Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic, ©1998.

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Additional Authors

Tymieniecka, Anna-Teresa.

Description

xiv, 324 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

Philosophy, art criticism and popular opinion all seem to treat the aesthetics of the comic as lightweight, while the tragic seems to be regarded with greater seriousness. Why this favouring of sadness over joy? Can it be justified? What are the criteria by which the significance of comedy can be estimated vis a vis tragedy? Questions such as these underlie the present selection of studies, which cast new light on the comic, the joyful and laughter itself. This challenge to the popular attitude strikes out into new territory, relating such matters to the profundity with which we enjoy life and its role in the deployment of the Human Condition.

Series Statement

Analecta Husserliana ; v. 56

Uniform Title

Analecta Husserliana ; v. 56.

Subject

• Comic, The, in art
• Arts
• Lust
• Phänomenologie
• Vergnügen
• Aufsatzsammlung
• Vreugde
• Het komische
• Comic, The

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

The Rainbow of Enjoyment: From Elementary Laughter to the Swing of the Human Spirit -- Celebrating Life: Joy, Laughter, Mirth, Amusement, the Smile of the Soul -- The Feast of Life, Joy, and Love: The Laughter and Smile of the Soul / Marlies Kronegger -- The Merchant of Venice: A Triumph of Discrepancy and Mirth / Judd D. Hubert -- The Smile of the Mind: From Moliere to Marivaux / Cynthia Osowiec Ruoff -- Reveries of Well-Being in the Shihp'in: From Psychology to Ontology / Louise Sundararajan -- Bergsonian Laughter in Bernard Shaw's Back to Methuselah / Merrill Horton -- G. Cabrera Infante and Lewis Carroll: The Aesthetics of Laughter in Contemporary Latin-American Literature / Nancy Campi De Castro -- Bracketing Theory in Leonardo's Five Grotesque Heads / Patricia Trutty-Coohill -- Aesthetics of the Comic -- Not Funny: Metaphor, Dream and Decapitation / Rob K. Baum -- Exploring Aesthetic Discomfort in the Experience of the Comic and the Tragic: John Marston's Antonio and Mellida and Antonio's Revenge / Jadwiga S. Smith -- Cannon Aspirin: Wallace Stevens' Defense of Pleasure / Patricia Rae -- The Comedy of the False Apperception: Wilde, Maugham, and Stoppard / Raymond J. Wilson III -- Irony as a Phenomenological Technique / Mara Stafecka -- The Circuits of Laughter -- Philosophy, Literature, and Laughter: Notes on an Ontology of the Moment / Lawrence Kimmel -- Comic Rhythms in Leonardo da Vinci / Patricia Trutty-Coohill -- Plastic Expression and Intuition of Being in Paul Tillich's Theology / Velga Vevere.

ISBN

• 0792346777
• 9780792346777

LCCN

97022549

OCLC

• ocm37201314
• 37201314
• SCSB-9508929

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library