Split Down the Sides: On the Subject of LaughterUniversity Press of America, 1997 - 245 strán (strany) This book is a study of the interrelationship between comedy and selfhood. While most people have a clear idea of what is meant by comedy, the notion of a self is much more enigmatic and therefore requires illumination. The book is accordingly divided into two parts: the first attempts to clarify what is meant by a self, and the second applies the resulting schematization of selfhood to the phenomenon of laughter. The two parts echo one another, contributing both to an understanding of comedy and to the ongoing philosophical question of identity. |
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... rationality . Being rational amounts to looking after number one . Yet this need not imply conscious decision - taking . The idea that rationality entails a reflective weighing up of a series of alternative modes of behaviour , followed ...
... rationality . Being rational amounts to looking after number one . Yet this need not imply conscious decision - taking . The idea that rationality entails a reflective weighing up of a series of alternative modes of behaviour , followed ...
Strana 183
... rational to attempt . " " Yet this does not only apply to the former communist bloc . Any obsessive slavery to a purely " rational " world dominated by the work ethic and inflexibly dogmatic order sets itself up for humorous deflation ...
... rational to attempt . " " Yet this does not only apply to the former communist bloc . Any obsessive slavery to a purely " rational " world dominated by the work ethic and inflexibly dogmatic order sets itself up for humorous deflation ...
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... rational always to be rational . It is not in our own interests . - Problems also arise with the giving of reasons . Any attempt to provide a rational justification for deductive reasoning , for example , itself presupposes the validity ...
... rational always to be rational . It is not in our own interests . - Problems also arise with the giving of reasons . Any attempt to provide a rational justification for deductive reasoning , for example , itself presupposes the validity ...
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Defining the Subject | 3 |
Self as Structure | 55 |
Self as Individual | 77 |
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