Pleasure of Fools: Essays in the Ethics of Laughter
ISBN: 9780773572850
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / McGill-Queen''s University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Laughter in literature; Laughter -- Moral and ethical aspects;

Men cannot laugh heartily without showing their teeth, quipped Samuel Butler. From St Paul to Descartes to Adorno, scholars and writers have questioned the ethics of laughter - any laughter. In The Pleasure of Fools, Jure Gantar wrestles with our moral right to laugh and the limitations of contemporary critical approaches.

Gantar Jure :

Jure Gantar is associate professor and chair, Department of Theatre, Dalhousie University.Jure Gantar is associate professor and chair, Department of Theatre, Dalhousie University.


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