Something Better Than Comedy

David F. Hoinski

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Page Range:: 9–25

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004548817_003

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Abstract

This chapter situates comedy and humour in relation to both political life and philosophy. It further introduces two conceptions of comedy, which I call other-directed comedy and deep comedy. Other-directed comedy is, I argue, essentially conservative and promotes social cohesion by ridiculing deviations from communal norms. Because philosophy is committed primarily to the good and not to society as such, it follows that the stance of philosophy towards other-directed comedy is ambivalent and depends upon the stage of the political process. If the social norms that other-directed comedy serves to reinforce are good, then it is good; otherwise it constitutes an obstacle to political reform and progress. Deep comedy, meanwhile, contrasts sharply with other-directed comedy because its ridicule is all-encompassing, taking aim not only at others but at the self itself and its own most dearly held beliefs, customs and so on. Although philosophy has a close affinity with deep comedy, I argue that philosophy turns away from it precisely because philosophy also takes the ephemeral human community seriously and hopes to improve it.

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Philosophy of Humour

New Perspectives

丛编： Value Inquiry Book Series, 卷： 389

ISBN:: 9789004548817

出版社:: Brill

印刷出版日期:: 04 Jul 2023

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- Philosophy
  - Philosophy of Mind
  - Anthropology

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Part 1 Humour and the History of Philosophy

Part 2 New Theoretical Contributions

Part 3 Humour, Morality, Feminism and Politics

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