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Lydia Amir
Contrary to common opinion, philosophy's relations with the comic are profound and complex, yet surprisingly understudied. Amir conceptualizes the relations that philosophy entertains with the comic in ten traditions, eight…
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This book investigates the role of humor in the good life, specifically as discussed in three prominent French intellectuals who were influenced by Nietzsche's thought: Georges Bataille, Gilles Deleuze, and…
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This book investigates the role of humor in the good life, specifically as discussed in three prominent French intellectuals who were influenced by Nietzsche’s thought: Georges Bataille, Gilles Deleuze, and…
Calling on philosophers as the custodians of rationality to reconsider their responsibility toward their communities and the state of civilization at large, this book considers philosophy to be a practical…
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In this volume, an international group of prominent philosophical practitioners brings new methods, aims, problems and audiences to the practice of philosophy. The twelve chapters here exemplify how philosophers can…
Taking Philosophy Seriously initiates a meta-philosophical dialogue that challenges the division between academic and practical philosophy.
This book presents an original worldview, Homo risibilis, wherein self-referential humor is proposed as the path leading from a tragic view of life to a liberating embrace of human ridicule…
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Lydia B. Amir
An exploration of philosophical and religious ideas about humor in modern philosophy and their secular implications.
This multi-faceted collection of women’s perspectives on the renaissance in philosophical practices provides an international overview on the professional practice of philosophical counseling as rooted in the ancient philosophical discipline…
