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1. The animal that laughs at itself : false false alarms about the end of 'Man'

   Autor*in: Burton, James

   Erschienen: 06.10.2022

   A trio of themes recur across prominent Western theories of laughter: violence, the human/nonhuman, and error. The paper traces this trio through a series of frequently cited paradigms for understanding laughter, including superiority, incongruity... mehr

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   Volltext:	http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/files/70474/burton_the-animal-that-laughs-at-itself.pdf
   Zitierfähiger Link:	https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-704741 https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-24_2

   A trio of themes recur across prominent Western theories of laughter: violence, the human/nonhuman, and error. The paper traces this trio through a series of frequently cited paradigms for understanding laughter, including superiority, incongruity and relief theories, Henri Bergson's theory of laughter and V. S. Ramachandran's false alarm theory; and argues that it reflects a shared, if partially submerged concern with the instability and demise of a particular figure of the human, one that is circumscribed by the culturally specific (if globally influential) values of Eurocentric/Western thought, largely corresponding to Sylvia Wynter's 'Man'. This suggests that laughter has an ambiguous immanent potential for both undermining and/or reasserting, de- and/or restabilising the illusion of Man's universalizing drive to identify itself with the human per se.

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   Quelle:	CompaRe
   Sprache:	Englisch
   Medientyp:	Teil eines Buches (Kapitel); Teil eines Buches (Kapitel)
   Format:	Online
   ISBN:	978-3-96558-037-4; 978-3-96558-038-1
   DDC Klassifikation:	Sozialwissenschaften (300); Literatur und Rhetorik (800)
   Sammlung:	ICI Berlin
   Schlagworte:	Lachen; Humor; Theorie; Westliche Welt
   Lizenz:	creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.de ; info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess