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Enjoyment

From Laughter to Delight in Philosophy, Literature, the Fine Arts, and Aesthetics

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  • © 1998

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Editors:
  1. Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka

    1. The World Institute for Advanced Phenomenological Research and Learning, Belmont, USA

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Part of the book series: Analecta Husserliana (ANHU, volume 56)

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Table of contents (24 chapters)

  1. Laughter and Aesthetic Enjoyment

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 227-228
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    2. Endgame: Beckett’s Oriental Subtext and the Prison of Consciousness

      • James B. Sipple
      Pages 229-235

    3. Language and Enjoyment — Heidegger and Eliot

      • Bernadette Prochaska
      Pages 237-245

    4. T. S. Eliot and Metaphysical Laughter: A Phenomenology of Reading

      • William D. Melaney
      Pages 247-255

    5. Joyless Laughter: Sophocles — Hesse — Beckett

      • Hans H. Rudnick
      Pages 257-265

  3. Back Matter

    Pages 319-329
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Philosophy, art criticism and popular opinion all seem to treat the aesthetics of the comic as lightweight, while the tragic seems to be regarded with greater seriousness. Why this favouring of sadness over joy? Can it be justified? What are the criteria by which the significance of comedy can be estimated vis à vis tragedy? Questions such as these underlie the present selection of studies, which casts new light on the comic, the joyful and laughter itself. This challenge to the popular attitude strikes into new territory, relating such matters to the profundity with which we enjoy life and its role in the deployment of the Human Condition. In her Introduction Tymieniecka points out that the tragic and the comic might be complementary in their respective sense-bestowing modes as well as in their dynamic functions; they might both share in the primogenital function of promoting the self-individualising progress of human existence.
For the first time in philosophy, laughter, mirth, joy and the like are revealed as the modalities of the essential enjoyment of life, being brought to bear in an illumination of the human condition.

Editors and Affiliations

  • The World Institute for Advanced Phenomenological Research and Learning, Belmont, USA

    Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Enjoyment

  • Book Subtitle: From Laughter to Delight in Philosophy, Literature, the Fine Arts, and Aesthetics

  • Editors: Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka

  • Series Title: Analecta Husserliana

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1425-9

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1998

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-4677-7Published: 31 March 1998

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-4889-9Published: 18 April 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-1425-9Published: 14 March 2013

  • Series ISSN: 0167-7276

  • Series E-ISSN: 2542-8330

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 329

  • Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Phenomenology, Aesthetics, Philosophy of Man

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