You've Got To Be Kidding!
How Jokes Can Help You Think
You've Got to Be Kidding: How Jokes Can Help You Think focuses on a single, core issue at the heart of philosophy: our ability to think critically. The authors, a father and son team of distinguished professors, aren't kidding around when they show us that jokes illustrate the various ways in which the thinking process goes awry. On the other hand, they argue that jokes 'work' (they're funny) because they assume standards of rational thinking that are violated by the joke itself. They also reveal that many jokes assume certain fundamental ethical and moral truths, and what makes them amusing or funny is when one or more of these truths is vio…
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Weitere Autoren: Capps, Donald
- ISBN: 978-1-4443-0790-0
- EAN: 9781444307900
- Produktnummer: 13859796
- Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 144 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 991 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
Über den Autor
John Capps is a Professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Donald Capps is Professor of Pastoral Psychology at Princeton Theological Seminary. He is the author of more than 20 books, including A Time to Laugh: The Religion of Humor (2005).
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