Abualheja, Faisal
155
actual world
76n16
Adorno, Theodor
145
aesthetics
129
affective
27
African Americans
18
agency
146
agreeable
31
alliance
86
amelioration
57
amuse
68
anger
156
animals
23
applause
83
appreciation
83
attention
83
attentiveness
81
Augustine
15
authentic existence
143
awe
37
Baby Cobra
110
background conditions
86
banana skin
68
Barack Obama
114
beliefs
85
Bezos, Jeff
175
Billingsley
157
Bobonich
25
borderline cases
69n7
borderline category
56
Bowie, David
155
brain
65n3
buffoon
130
Burke
32
Burmeister
127
caricatures
65
categorical imperative
41
children
83
Cicero
94
climax
82
code of honour
84
cognitive mastery
66n4
comedy
2 , 3 , 5 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 17 , 18 , 19 , 20 , 21 , 22 , 23 , 24 , 92 , 93 , 95 , 96 , 98 , 99 , 100 , 102 , 104 , 108 , 113 , 118 , 119 , 125 , 126 , 128 , 129 , 130 , 133 , 134 , 135 , 136 , 137 , 138 , 139
beyond
22
limitation
21
objects of
13
philosophy and
14
comedy club
95
comical effect
57
commitment
87
common sense
2
concepts
29
Confucius
22
confusion
51
Connolly, Billy
97
contingent
43
contrast
67
Crandall
127
cruelty
123
cultural identity
145
danger
36
deconstruction
149
deep
63
Dennett
78
depression
151
Derrida, Jacques
149
detach
68
Deutsch
109
difference
151
dignity
34
direct comprehension
91
direct speech
50
disability
123
disambiguation
66
discriminated groups
72n10
disengage
76
disgust
156
disgusting
morally
77
dispositional theory
86
doubt
51
Duchenne
78
Dylan, Bob
145
engagement
87
entertainment
91
equality
98
Equanimity & The Bird Revelation
149
equity
98
Erasmus of Rotterdam
162
erotic love
55
essence
48
esteem
37
ethical
57
ethnic group
72
euphoria
160
everyday life
52
evil
54
expressiveness
81
factive
76
failure
ethical
53
fairytale
81
familiar
83
family resemblance
159
Farrell
127
fascination
intellectual
69n7
Ferguson
127
fictionality
3
Ford
127
formal object
63
Frazier
52
Friedman, Jena
124
frustration
67
Fujimori, Alberto
172
Gemes
110
Gibbs
65
Gill
157
Hard Knock Wife
110
hilarious
69
Hoinski
2
Hollywood
108
homosexual relationships
72
hostility
27
human being
21
human existence
154
humanism
165
humility
147
humour
1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 14 , 15 , 23 , 24 , 26 , 27 , 31 , 32 , 33 , 34 , 36 , 37 , 38 , 39 , 40 , 41 , 42 , 45 , 46 , 47 , 48 , 53 , 54 , 55 , 56 , 58 , 61 , 62 , 63 , 63n1 , 64 , 65 , 65n3 , 66n4 , 67 , 68 , 70 , 72 , 73 , 73n12 , 74 , 75 , 76 , 77 , 85 , 86 , 87 , 92 , 93 , 94 , 95 , 96 , 97 , 98 , 99 , 100 , 101 , 102 , 103 , 104 , 106 , 107 , 108 , 109 , 129 , 130 , 131 , 132 , 133 , 134 , 135 , 136 , 137 , 138 , 139 , 140 , 142 , 148 , 151 , 154 , 156 , 158 , 159 , 161 , 162 , 163 , 165 , 167 , 173 , 174 , 175
and beauty
42
and irony
53
as disinterested
35
as irrational
34
as universal
35
comedy and
14
emotional component
65n3
essentialist theory
62
mechanical
63n1
necessary and sufficient conditions
75
play theory
63n1
sense of
62
subjective standard
43
theory of
15
hydraulic
27
illusion
32
imaginative resistance
76n16
immediacy
51
implicit
75
incongruity
26 , 27 , 35 , 36 , 37 , 39 , 41 , 42 , 56 , 57 , 61 , 63 , 64 , 65 , 65n3 , 66 , 66n4 , 68 , 70 , 72 , 73 , 73n12 , 74 , 75 , 76 , 77 , 87 , 92 , 94 , 95 , 104 , 142 , 143 , 144 , 151 , 152 , 153 , 157
infinite
51
infinity
49
inhibition
85
inhuman
20
insight
81
intellect
32
intentionality
144
interpretation
67
intersubjective
35
inwardness
48
ironic effect
50
irony
3 , 45 , 46 , 47 , 48 , 49 , 50 , 51 , 52 , 53 , 54 , 56 , 67
absoluteness of
49
and personal existence
52
as disciplinarian
52
as goal in itself
51
as tool or instrument
51
controlled
52
core of
49
destructive force
52
target of
50
usages of
51
Ivy League
98
jargon
84
Jarry, Alfred
172
Jenner, Caitlyn
97
Jim Crow laws
116
Johnson, Boris
169
joke
20 , 21 , 32 , 35 , 36 , 40 , 53 , 57 , 61 , 64 , 65 , 66n4 , 67n5 , 69 , 69n7 , 70 , 70n9 , 71 , 72 , 72n10 , 72n11 , 73 , 73n12 , 74 , 75 , 76 , 76n16 , 77 , 80 , 81 , 82 , 83 , 84 , 85 , 86 , 87 , 88 , 89 , 89n2 , 90 , 129 , 130 , 131 , 132 , 134 , 138
affective
84
comprehension
90
conditional
84
explanation
84
hermetic
84
meaning
83
narrative
81
pure
84
realistic
82
spontaneous response
89
time and place
82
joke performance
successful
90
Jordan, Mark
172
Kaufman
127
Kerouac, Jack
148
Kierkegaard
2 , 45 , 46 , 46n1 , 47 , 48 , 49 , 50 , 51 , 52 , 53 , 54 , 55 , 56 , 57 , 58
the comic
46
the tragic
47
King, Larry
49
kōan
152
Kulka
78
laugher
theories of
57
laughter
1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 16 , 17 , 20 , 22 , 23 , 24 , 26 , 27 , 28 , 31 , 32 , 33 , 34 , 35 , 36 , 37 , 38 , 39 , 40 , 43 , 44 , 46 , 75 , 80 , 81 , 83 , 84 , 85 , 86 –87 , 88 , 89 , 90 , 91 , 92 , 93 , 94 , 95 , 96 , 99 , 100 , 101 , 102 , 103 , 104 , 106 , 142 , 143 , 144 , 147 , 148 , 149 , 150 , 151 , 152 , 153 , 154 , 155 , 156 , 157 , 158 , 161 , 163 , 165 , 172 , 173 , 174 , 175
contagious
75
genuine expression
84
good-hearted
33
material for
33
negative side
11
object of
24
power
11
spontaneous expression
91
Levinas
146
levity
74
liberation theory
5
libertarianism
161
linguistic
48
love
56
MacKinnon
140
magnitudes
30
Magritte
74
make-believe
66n4
Malcolm
78
martyrdom
56
Marx, Groucho
64
meaning-blindness
76n15
meaningless
74
melancholy
151
Melbourne
131
melody
102
Merrill, Lisa
119
metaphysical
57
metarepresentational awareness
66n4
mirth
69n7
misunderstanding
51
Mollow
128
Moyaert
110
Musk, Elon
175
Myanmar
101
naive
33
Nancy, Jean-Luc
149
Nanette
148
narrative
82
narrator
81
Nasier, Alcofribas
162
necrophilia
72
negate
50
negation
48
negative
51
negligent
51
nervous energy
63
neuroscience
90
nihilistic
51
non-involvement
68
nonsensical
32
obscene
83
odd
89
oral tradition
81
Orbán, Viktor
172
outwardness
48
paradox
51
Pascal, Blaise
103
past
68
peculiar
89
perception
30
Peter Griffin
116
phenomenon
48
picture
75
positive laughter
155
postmodern philosophy
142
predisposition
33
present
68
protagonist
87
provocative
83
puzzles
69
quality
secondary
62
real
75
realization
89
reasoning
74n13
relativity
52
religion
22
religionists
21
repellent
morally
76n16
repress
63
resistance
76n16
resonate
84
responsibility
86
revision
68
revivalist
56
Russell, Danielle
118
sadness
156
Salvini, Matteo
171
sarcasm
65
Schadenfreude
68n6
Schlegel
51
scientism
21
self-hygiene
142
sensations
29
sensibility
28
sexual intercourse
72
sexuality
154
Shedada, Alan
155
silence
83
social contract
51
social milieu
51
social-cultural context
100
Sommer
2
Sorbonne
162
Spektor, Regina
37
spoonerisms
67
Srinivasan, Amia
138
standard theory
74
Stott
157
subject of the joke
97
subsume
42
Suls
79
supersensible
28
suspension of knowledge
70n8
sylleptic zeugmas
67
sympathy
85
Szabo-Gendler
118
the humorist
54
the role
57
the tragic
57
thing-in-itself
40
threat
36
Tieck
51
Tirosh
128
Tomsett, Ellie
117
transcendental
43
transcendental idealism
26
trauma
96
trompe-l’oeils
74
Tsoi
117
Ubu King
158
understanding
29 , 30 , 38 , 42 , 43 , 80 , 81 , 83 , 84 , 85 , 86 , 87 , 88 , 89 , 90 , 91
and reason
38
concept of
41
forms and degrees
89
interpretative capacities
38
puzzled
32
unpleasant
32
values
85
Vergote
160
violence
25
Vrtička
79
Walton
108
wavering
66
Weiss
117
West, Kanye
175
West, Lindy
138
West Bank
155
Wilde
64
wittiness
69n7
wonder
156
wordplays
75
Xu
157
zealotry
55
Zen Buddhism
152
Zinoman
128
Zupančič
25