Author : Lydia Amir
Release : 2021-09-30
Genre : Philosophy
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The Legacy of Nietzsche’s Philosophy of Laughter - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Legacy of Nietzsche’s Philosophy of Laughter write by Lydia Amir. This book was released on 2021-09-30. The Legacy of Nietzsche’s Philosophy of Laughter available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 of the subsequent three chapters focuses on the significance of humor and laughter in the good life as advocated by Bataille, Deleuze, and Rosset. These chapters also explore the complex relationship between the comic and the tragic, and of humor and laughter to irony, satire, and ridicule. The Legacy of Nietzsche’s Philosophy of Laughter makes an invaluable contribution to recent interpretive work done on Bataille and Deleuze, and offers further introduction to the relatively understudied Rosset. It illuminates the philosophies of these three thinkers, their connection to Nietzsche, and, overall, the significant role that humor plays in philosophy.