Take My Course, Please! The Philosophy of Humor

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Course Description

Overview

Discover what humor is from the perspective of history’s great philosophers.

Syllabus

By This Professor
01: The Universality of Humor
02: The Objectivity of Humor
03: The Science of Laughter
04: Truth and Humor
05: Comedy and Tragedy
06: Irony and Truth
07: Satires, Parodies, and Spoofs
08: Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One: Jokes
09: Theories of Humor
10: Superiority Theory
11: Inferiority Theory
12: Play Theory
13: Relief Theory
14: Incongruity Theory
15: Cleverness Theory
16: Humor Theory Revisited
17: Humor Ethics: Boundaries and Limitations
18: Who Can Tell Ethnic Jokes?
19: Comic Moralism
20: Situational Ethics and Humor
21: The Necessity of Humor
22: Comedian Ethics
23: Socially Progressive Comedy
24: Ridiculousness and the Human Condition

Taught by

Steven Gimbel, Ph.D.

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