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Product Description: To understand comedy is to understand humanity, for the comic sense is central to what it means to be human. Nearly all the major issues with which human beings have exercised themselves are touched upon in some manner by the comic spirit...read more

Hardcover:

9781560002185 | Transaction Pub, October 1, 1995, cover price $45.95 | About this edition: To understand comedy is to understand humanity, for the comic sense is central to what it means to be human.

Paperback:

9781412807814 | Transaction Pub, September 30, 2008, cover price $36.95 | About this edition: To understand comedy is to understand humanity, for the comic sense is central to what it means to be human.

This book has been highly acclaimed both as an imaginative way of introducing the Zen tradition to Western readers, and as an important contribution to understanding the fullness of the Zen perspective and way of life.

Hardcover:

9780893415594 | Rev sub edition (Longwood Pr Ltd, December 1, 1989), cover price $30.00

Paperback:

9781592444953 | Wipf & Stock Pub, January 26, 2004, cover price $23.00
9780893415600 | Revised edition (Longwood Pr Ltd, April 1, 1989), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: This book has been highly acclaimed both as an imaginative way of introducing the Zen tradition to Western readers, and as an important contribution to understanding the fullness of the Zen perspective and way of life.

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Product Description: Is comedy an inconsequential part of life, useful primarily for relaxation and escape? Conrad Hyers asserts that comedy is central to all aspects of existence. In The Comic Vision and the Christian Faith Hyers offers the first detailed study of the special significance of comic and religious themes to show that the comic tradition enriches and informs as well as entertains...read more

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9781592443956 | Wipf & Stock Pub, October 15, 2003, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Is comedy an inconsequential part of life, useful primarily for relaxation and escape?

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Product Description: This book contains a clear, concise discussion of the likenesses and differences of Soto and Rinzai Zen.

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9780893415242 | Longwood Pr Ltd, January 1, 1989, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: This book contains a clear, concise discussion of the likenesses and differences of Soto and Rinzai Zen.

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