04339nam a22004935i 4500001001800000003000900018005001700027007001500044008004100059020003700100024003500137050001300172072001600185072002300201072001500224100008400239245013000323250001800453264007900471300003600550336002600586337002600612338003600638347002400674505146100698520115702159650004703316650003503363650002403398650001903422650003503441650003703476650002403513650004803537710003403585773002603619776003603645776003603681776003603717856004603753912001403799912001503813999001703828978-3-031-74433-4DE-He21320251030114945.0cr nn 008mamaa250225s2024    sz |    s    |||| 0|eng d  a97830317443349978-3-031-74433-47 a10.1007/978-3-031-74433-42doi 4aP101-120 7aCFA2bicssc 7aPHI0380002bisacsh 7aCFA2thema1 aBarris, Jeremy.eauthor.4aut4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut99090210aHumor’s Privileged Access to Truth, Meaning, and Goodnessh[electronic resource] :bThe Depth of Humor /cby Jeremy Barris.  a1st ed. 2024. 1aCham :bSpringer Nature Switzerland :bImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,c2024.  aXVIII, 486 p.bonline resource.  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  atext filebPDF2rda0 aIntroduction -- Chapter 1. Humor as a Privileged Grasp of Deep Truth -- Chapter 2. Humor as a Privileged Grasp of Goodness, Meaningfulness, and Mutually Exclusive Truths.-Chapter 3. Overlaps and Illuminating Problems with Alternative Accounts of Humor -- Chapter 4.Further Features of Humor’s Access to Deep Truth: Humor’s Devices for Fixing and Sustaining our Attention on Sense as Such -- Chapter 5 -- Henry Fielding I: Amiable Humor -- Chapter 6. Henry Fielding II: Amiable Humor, Ironic Distance, and the Charitable Embrace of Conflicting Truths and Values -- Chapter 7 -- The More Fine-Grained Structure of Humor’s Self-Canceling Distance from Sense: How Bringing Out Sense’s Unqualified Truth Itself Makes Room for Sense That It Wholly Excludes -- Chapter 8 Jane Austen: The Consummate Ironist Chapter 9. Charles Dickens: Bleak House, Caricature, and the Meaning and Meaningfulness of Reality Itself -- Chapter 10 -- Oscar Wilde: The Perversity of Paradox and the Sense of Sense Itself -- Chapter 11 -- George Bernard Shaw: The Pertinence of Paradox and the Call in Sense Itself for Charitable Compassion -- Chapter 12. Gilbert Keith Chesterton:The Impertinence of Paradox and the Meaningfulness of Reality Itself -- Chapter 13 -- Long or Narrative Jokes -- Chapter 14. Humor and Religious Insight: Humor as a Celebratory Appreciation of Life and the World. Chapter 15. Humor and the Insights of Particular Religious Traditions -- Conclusion.  aThis book explores three connected insights into humor. First, that humor provides a privileged access to the deepest kind of truth, the sense as such of its topics and so of their very reality. It is argued that humor allows us to see things afresh and truly by flouting the sense of the things it deals with so enabling us to step outside of our taken for granted immersion in that sense. As a result, the character of the true sense stands out against the contrast of its nonsensical distortion. Second, that because of the way humor accesses truth, it also brings out the essential meaning of relevant value including the good and the worthwhile. Third, humor enables a privileged coordination and negotiation of profoundly conflicting truths and values. Humor’s access to truth is privileged both in its depth, even with respect to metaphysics, and also because it establishes the truth of what it shows. Humor’s Privileged Access to Truth, Meaning, and Goodness is essential reading for all scholars and researchers of the philosophy of humor. Jeremy Barris is Professor of Philosophy in the Humanities Department at Marshall University, USA. 0aLanguage and languagesxPhilosophy.973516 0aLiteraturexPhilosophy.966322 0aMetaphysics.970839 0aEthics.95893414aPhilosophy of Language.97351824aPhilosophy of Literature.97299324aMetaphysics.97083924aMoral Philosophy and Applied Ethics.9664102 aSpringerLink (Online service)0 tSpringer Nature eBook08iPrinted edition:z978303174432708iPrinted edition:z978303174434108iPrinted edition:z978303174435840uhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-74433-4  aZDB-2-REP  aZDB-2-SXPR  c66758d66758