1st Edition
The Legacy of Nietzsche’s Philosophy of Laughter Bataille, Deleuze, and Rosset
By Lydia Amir
Copyright 2021
500 Pages
by
Routledge
500 Pages
by
Routledge
500 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Introduction
Prologue: The French Reception of Nietzsche As a Philosopher of Laughter
1. Georges Bataille: The Laughter of Ecstasy
2. Gilles Deleuze: The Humor of Affirmation
3. Clément Rosset: The Laughter of Annihilation
4. Concluding Remarks: Additional French Twentieth-Century Views of Laughter
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.
