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The Stability Of Laughter by James Nikopoulos, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

From James Nikopoulos

Current price: $266.50
The Stability Of Laughter by James Nikopoulos, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters
The Stability Of Laughter by James Nikopoulos, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

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The Stability Of Laughter by James Nikopoulos, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

From James Nikopoulos

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A "sad and corrupt" age, a period of "crisis" and "upheaval"-what T. S. Eliot famously summed up as "the panorama of futility and anarchy which is contemporary history." Modernism has always been characterized by its self-conscious sense of suffering. Why, then, was it so obsessed with laughter? From Baudelaire, Nietzsche, Bergson and Freud to Pirandello, Beckett, Hughes, Barnes, and Joyce, no moment in cultural history has written about laughter this much. James Nikopoulos investigates modernity's paradoxical relationship with mirth. Why was the gesture we conventionally associate with happiness deemed the only sensible way of responding to a world, as Max Weber wrote, that had been "disenchanted of its gods?" In answering these questions, Nikopoulos also delves into our ongoing relationship with laughter. He looks to contemporary research in emotion and evolutionary theory, as well as to the two-thousand-plus-year history of the philosophy of humor, in order to propose a novel way of understanding laughter, humor, and their complicated relationships with modern life. The Stability of Laughterexplores how art unsettles the simplifications we revert to in our attempts to make sense of human history and social interaction. | The Stability Of Laughter by James Nikopoulos, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

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