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On Humour
Simon Critchley
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On Humour
Simon Critchley
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Does humour make us human, or do the cats and dogs laugh along with us? On Humour is a fascinating, beautifully written and funny book on what humour can tell us about being human. Simon Critchley skilfully probes some of the most perennial but least understood aspects of humour, such as our tendency to laugh at animals and our bodies, why we mock death with comedy and why we think it's funny when people act like machines. He also looks at the darker side of humour, as rife in sexism and racism and argues that it is important for reminding us of people we would rather not be.
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Index
abjection 96–8, 102
abstraction 87–8
Adorno, Theodor 19, 36
Aesop 29, 31
alienation 43
Allen, Woody 98
anaesthesia 87–8
anamnesis 86–7
Anaxagoras 25
Animal Farm 31
animals 25, 27–31, 34–8, 41–3
anthropology 2, 5, 17, 27–8, 65–6
anti-depressants 101–2
anti-Semitism 75
Aristotle 2, 25, 98–9
assent 85–6
Auden, W. H. 16–17
Bakhtin, Mikhail 44, 51, 82
Batailles, Georges 105
bathos 6–7, 37, 47
Baudelaire, Charles 9
Beckett, Bill 52
Beckett, Samuel 25, 32–3; ethnicity 57, 73; post-colonal theory 47–50, 52; super-ego 105–6, 109–11
being 42–5, 109
Berger, Peter 17, 31–2, 42, 83
Bergson, Henri 2, 4, 25; laughing machine 55–9, 61; sensus communis 87
Bernhard, Thomas 36–7
bestiality 29–31
Bible 26–7, 42
Blazing Saddles 48
body 7–9, 41–52, 60
Bogart, Humphrey 98
Breton, André 9–10, 31; ethnicity 71, 73; laughing machine 57; super-ego 94
Britain 68–9, 71–3, 84–5
Brooks, Mel 48
buffoonery 82, 83
Cana, wedding at 26
Carnival 82
cartoons 14, 31, 55–6
cathexis 100
Catholicism 83
Chaplin, Charlie 57–8, 67
Chasseguet-Smirgel, Janine 104–5
Chaucer, Geoffrey 29, ...