دانلود کتاب Kant's Humorous Writings: An Illustrated Guide

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Front matter
Preface
Foreword / Noël Carroll
Acknowledgments
Note on Text and Sources
Abbreviations
1. The Secret Soul of Kant’s Joke
Superiority, Incongruity, and Release Theories
Superiority theory
Incongruity theory
Release theory
Kant’s Theory of Humor: A Combination
Agreeable Arts, and Three Arts of Laughter (Wit, Naiveté,Caprice)
Kant’s Thoughts on Comedy
2. Three Questions about Laughter at Humor
Can Laughter at Humor be a Pure Aesthetic Judgment?
An Experience of Beauty, Sublimity, or Something Else?
How Does Laughter at Humor Fit in with Kant’s Broader Philosophical Aims?
3. Kant and the Ethics of Humor
A Review of Kantian Ethical Theory
Why Ethicism
There are ethical constraints on humor
Jest and joking are dispensable, overridden by ethical constraints
Any moral content in a joke or jest increases its practical-moral worth
Joking and jest promote sociability, one of the supports and allies of morality
Why Kant’s Ethicism is Soft
The Relative Permissibility of Joking
A Racist Claim, a Sexist Joke
Closing Kantian Questions
Incongruity Jokes
The Merchant’s Wig
Happy Funeral Mourners
Swift Wit
Dying of Good Health
£200
Of Juice and Justice
King Louis’ Gate
Thinking with One’s Body
The Happy Cuckold
Full of Bull
With Friends Like These
Ethnic and Sexist Jokes and Quips
Foam in a Bottle
German Fools
The Bearded Woman
Samuel Johnson’s Wife
Jokes with a Point
Abelard’s Flying Ox
Which Way the Wind Blows
Philosophy Detox
The Voltaire Bros
The Life You Save May Be Your Own
Three Sayings With A Message
Ragout, with Wit on the Side
Hooped Skirts and Pruned Trees
Heidegger as a Woman
There Are No Ugly Noses
A Whale Barrel
To Each His Own
Pyrrho’s Pig: That’s What I’m Talking about
Hobson’s Choice
Sex and Death
An Honest Man Is Hard to Find
Appendix: Chapter Summaries
Notes
Preface
Foreword by Noel Carroll
Note on Text and Sources
Chapter 1: The Secret Soul of Kant\'s Joke
Chapter 2: Three questions about laughter at humor
Chapter 3: Kant and the Ethics of Humor
Incongruity Jokes
Ethnic and Sexist Jokes and Quips
Jokes with a Point
Part Three Sayings with a Message
Bibliography
Index