The Legacy of Nietzsche’s Philosophy of Laughter

Bataille, Deleuze, and Rosset

By:

Lydia Amir

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Hardback

Series:

Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Philosophy

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This book investigates the role of humor in the good life, specifically as discussed by three prominent French intellectuals who were influenced by Nietzsche's thought: Georges Bataille, Gilles Deleuze, and Clément Rosset. Lydia Amir begins by discussing Nietzsche’s reception in France, and she explains why and how he came to be considered a "philosopher of laughter" in the French academe. Each of the subsequent three chapters focuses on the significance of humor and laughter in the good life as advocated by Bataille, Deleuze, and Rosset. These chapters also explore the complex relationship between the comic and the tragic, and of humor and laughter to irony, satire, and ridicule. The Legacy of Nietzsche’s Philosophy of Laughter makes an invaluable contribution to recent interpretive work done on Bataille and Deleuze, and offers further introduction to the relatively understudied Rosset. It illuminates the philosophies of these three thinkers, their connection to Nietzsche, and, overall, the significant role that humor plays in philosophy.

Author Biography:

Lydia Amir is Visiting Professor of Philosophy at Tufts University, USA. She is the author of Humor and the Good Life: Shaftesbury, Hamann, Kierkegaard (2014), and Rethinking Philosophers' Responsibility (2017). She is the Founding-President of the International Association for the Philosophy of Humor, and editor of the Israeli Journal of Humor Research: An International Journal.

Release date Australia

September 30th, 2021

Author

Lydia Amir

Series

Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Philosophy

Pages

486

Audience

Tertiary Education (US: College)

ISBN-13

9781138584280

Product ID

34405705

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