Titlebook: Why Can‘t Philosophers Laugh?; Katrin Froese Book 2017 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017 Confucius.Zhuangzi.Chan Buddhi

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斗志

Prosaic

Humour as the Playful Sidekick to Language in the maintain an artificial division between human beings and nature. Language and knowledge, even within the Chinese tradition, tend to fix in place what is fluid, and thus must be . undone. Humour is advocated as a way of life in this text. Human beings are portrayed as bumbling and awkward creatures

Engulf

Laughing for Nothing in Chan Buddhism same time, they recognize that we can never escape the paradoxes of language because we cannot do without the anchors that concepts provide. But these anchors can become linguistic straightjackets that we need to extricate ourselves from. The movement between using linguistic concepts and undoing t

Geyser

缓解

HACK

gues that the comic is not antithetical to philosophy, but i.This book analyzes Western and Chinese philosophical texts to determine why laughter and the comic have not been a major part of philosophical discourse. Katrin Froese maintains that many philosophical accounts of laughter try to unearth l

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Redeeming Laughter in Nietzschem. It is in the face of this nihilistic despair that Nietzsche seeks salvation through laughter. Laughter represents an acceptance of paradox and purposelessness, as well as an embrace of the smallness of human beings. It demands a change in how we philosophize, resisting the impulse to constant conceptualization.

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Book 2017 points, attempting to philosophize out of laughter rather than merely trying to unearth reasons for laughter. The book proposes that continuously unraveling philosophical assumptions through the comic and laughter may be necessary to live well..