دانلود کتاب The Moral Psychology of Amusement

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Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Introduction: The Moral Psychology of Amusement
Section I: Amusement and Moral Judgments
Section II: Moral Judgments of Amusement
Section III: Social Moral Judgments of Amusement
Section IV: Ancient Perspectives on the Moral Judgments of Amusement
Amusement as Emotion
References
Part I: Amusement and Moral Judgments
Chapter 1: LOL: What We Can Learn from Forced Laughter
1. Theories of Humor and Amusement
2. Forced Laughter
3. Emotional Content, Expression, and Deception
4. Motoric Enaction
5. Social Enaction
6. Normative Disarmament
7. Enactive Forced Laughter
Notes
References
Chapter 2: An Interactional Sociolinguist Engages the Moral Psychology of Amusement
An Individual Sense of Humor
Metadiscoursal Manipulation Using “I was just joking”
Changing Norms on What Is Suitable for Amusement
Reactionary Revolt Against So-called “Political Correctness”
Ethical Dilemmas of Response in Situations Where People Violate Changing Norms
Conclusion
References
Chapter 3: It’s All Fun and Games until Someone Gets Hurt: Amusement’s Negative Influence on Moral Judgment
Part I: Amusement’s Positive Influence
Part II: Amusement’s Negative Influence
Part III: Implications
Conclusion
Notes
References
Part II: Moral Judgments of Amusement
Chapter 4: Beyond a Joke: A Defence of Comic Moralism
1. The Merited-Response Argument
2. A Benign-Appraisal Condition
3. Defending from Carroll’s Criticism
Notes
References
Chapter 5: This Isn’t Funny: It’s Serious
1. Introduction
2. Humor, Amusement, and Serious Attitudes
3. Explaining Criticism of Humor as Lacking Seriousness
4. Evaluating Criticisms of Humor
5. Considering Context
6. Concluding Remarks
Notes
References
Chapter 6: The Ethics of Humor
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Conclusion
Notes
References
Part III: Social Moral Judgments of Amusement
Chapter 7: You Shouldn’t Have Laughed!: The Ethics of Derogatory Amusement
1. Consider an Example
2. The Varieties of Humor
3. Diagnosing Derogation
4. Derogatory Humor as Expressive Act
5. Explaining the Moral Defectiveness of Derogatory Humor
6. Explaining the Moral Defectiveness of Derogatory Amusement
7. Unobjectionable Derogatory Humor: Advantages over Gimbel’s Account
8. Concluding Remarks
Notes
References
Chapter 8: Amused by the Outrageous: The Morally Tempering Effect of News Satire
1. The Underlying Sentimentalist Assumption in Media Studies Research
2. Prinz and the Sentimentalist Ooze of Morality
3. News Satire, Media Studies Research, and Our Complicated Emotional Lives
4. Moral Sentimentalism and News Satire
5. Conclusion
Notes
References
Chapter 9: Eutrapelia and the Normativity of Social Humor
I. Eutrapelia as a Social Virtue
II. Eutrapelia and Social Humor
III. Eutrapelia and the Funny
IV. Eutrapelia and Fitting-Attitude Theory
Notes
References
Part IV: Ancient Perspectives on The Moral Judgments of Amusement
Chapter 10: Amusement, Happiness, and the Good Life in Plato’s Dialogues
1. Amusement, Serious Activity, and the Point of Philosophizing
2. The Dangers of a Life of Amusement in the Gorgias
3. Education, Proper Work, and the Possibility of Error
4. Plato’s Laughing Philosopher
5. Conclusion
Notes
References
Chapter 11: Zhuangzi’s Moral Psychology and Humor: The Playful Liberation of Self, Others, and Society
Zhuangzi and Humor
Moral Psychologies of Humor
Examples of Therapeutic Humor in Zhuangzi
Models of Humor
Conclusions: Humor and Social Moral Psychology
References
Chapter 12: Starting from the Muses: Engaging Moral Imagination through Memory’s Many Gifts
1. Introduction: Mother of the Muses
2. Rememberings
3. Forgettings
4. Imaginings
5. Conclusion
Notes
References
Index
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