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Tables of Contents for On Humour
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction
1
24
Three Theories of Humour
2
1
The Phenomenology of a Joke
3
3
Comic Timing
6
1
Laughter as an Explosion Expressed With the Body
7
2
Changing the Situation
9
2
Reactionary Humour
11
1
Structured Fun
12
2
Jokes: Good, Bad and Gulliver
14
2
Laughter's Messianic Power
16
2
Sensus and Dissensus Communis
18
2
Tristram Shandy, or Back to the Things Themselves
20
5
Is Humour Human?
25
16
Eccentric Humans
27
2
A Small Bestiary
29
2
Horace and Juvenal, Urbanity and Disgust
31
3
Outlandish Animals
34
2
Kant's Parrot
36
5
Laughing at Your Body-Post-Colonal Theory
41
14
Being and Having
42
1
Physics and Metaphysics
43
2
Our Souls, Arseholes
45
2
Peditology
47
3
The Black Sun at the Centre of the Comic Universe
50
5
The Laughing Machine-a Note on Bergson and Wyndham Lewis
55
10
A Cabbage Reading Flubert - Now That's Funny
58
1
How Humour Begins in Philosophy
59
6
Foreigners are Funny-the Ethicity and Ethnicity of Humour
65
14
The Universal and the Particular
66
2
Ethos and Ethnos
68
3
There was a Frenchman, an Englishman and an Irishman
71
2
Having the Courage of our Parochialism
73
2
Comic Repression
75
4
The Joke's on All of Us-Humour as Sensus Communis
79
14
Shaftesbury's Reasonable Raillery
80
3
Disenchantment of Folly or Democratization of Wit?
83
2
Intersubjective Assent
85
1
Jokes as Everyday Anamnesis
86
1
Anaesthesia of the Heart
87
1
The Phenomenology of Phenomenology
88
5
Why the Super-Ego is Your Amigo-My Sense of Humour and Freud's
93
20
Finding Oneself Ridiculous
94
2
Subject as Abject Object
96
2
Melancholy Philosophers
98
1
Manic Intoxication
99
2
Humour as Anti-Depressant
101
1
Super-Ego I and II
102
2
Ideal Sickness
104
1
Laughter I and II
105
2
Smiling-the Mind's Mime
107
2
The Risus Purus
109
4
Notes
113
8
Bibliography
121
4
Thanks
125
2
Index
127