دانلود کتاب Redeeming Laughter: The Comic Dimension of Human Experience

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Overview\nPreface\nPrefatory Remarks, Self-Serving Explanations, and Unsolicited Compliments\nPrologue\nPart I: Anatomy of the Comic\n 1 The Comic Intrusion\n 2 Philosophers of the Comic, and the Comedy of Philosophy\n 3 Laughing Monks: A Very Brief Sinitic Interlude\n 4 Homo Ridens: Physiology and Psychology\n 5 Homo Ridiculus: Social Constructions of the Comic\n 6 Interlude: Brief Reflections on Jewish Humor\nPart II: Comic Forms of Expression\n 7 The Comic as Diversion: Benign Humor\n 8 The Comic as Consolation: Tragicomedy\n 9 The Comic as Game of Intellect: Wit\n 10 The Comic as Weapon: Satire\n 11 Interlude: The Eternal Return of Folly\nPart III: Toward a Theology of the Comic\n 12 The Folly of Redemption\n 13 Interlude: On Grim Theologians\n 14 The Comic as a Signal of Transcendence\nEpilogue