Stop Me If You've Heard This: A History and Philosophy of Jokes - 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 Stop Me If You've Heard This: A History and Philosophy of Jokes write by Jim Holt. This book was released on 2008-07-17. Stop Me If You've Heard This: A History and Philosophy of Jokes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “Finally I understand what it is I’ve been laughing at all these years.”—Jimmy Kimmel From the best-selling author of Why Does the World Exist? comes this outrageous, uproarious compendium of absurdity, filth, racy paradox, and gratuitous offensiveness—just the kind of mature philosophical reflection readers have come to expect from the ever-entertaining Jim Holt. Indeed, Stop Me If You’ve Heard This is the first book to trace the evolution of the joke all the way from the standup comics of ancient Athens to the comedy-club Seinfelds of today. After exploring humor’s history in Part One, Holt delves into philosophy in Part Two: Wall Street jokes; jokes about rednecks and atheists, bulimics and politicians; jokes you missed if you didn’t go to a Catholic girls’ school; jokes about logic and existence itself . . . all became fodder for the grand theories of Aristotle, Kant, Freud, and Wittgenstein in this heady mix of the high and low, of the ribald and profound, from America’s most beloved philosophical pundit.
The Pun Also Rises
The Pun Also Rises - 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 Pun Also Rises write by John Pollack. This book was released on 2012-04-03. The Pun Also Rises available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. At once entertaining and educational, this engaging book is a funny, erudite, and provocative exploration of puns, the people who make them, and this derided wordplay's remarkable impact on human history.
You've Got To Be Kidding!
You've Got To Be Kidding! - 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 You've Got To Be Kidding! write by John Capps. This book was released on 2011-09-13. You've Got To Be Kidding! available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. You've Got to Be Kidding!: How Jokes Can Help You Think is a thoughtful and accessible analysis of the ways in which jokes illustrate how we think critically, and how the thinking process goes awry in everyday human situations. Uses jokes to illustrate the various mistakes or fallacies that are typically identified and discussed in courses on critical reasoning Provides an effective way to learn critical thinking skills since jokes often describe real-life situations where it really matters whether a person thinks well or not Demonstrates how philosophy is actually very practical and clearly related to real- life human experiences Explains how developing good reasoning habits can make a real difference in all aspects of one's life
Vintage Tomorrows
Vintage Tomorrows - 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 Vintage Tomorrows write by James H. Carrott. This book was released on 2013-02-11. Vintage Tomorrows available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What would today's technology look like with Victorian-era design and materials? That's the world steampunk envisions: a mad-inventor collection of 21st century-inspired contraptions powered by steam and driven by gears. In this book, futurist Brian David Johnson and cultural historian James Carrott explore steampunk, a cultural movement that's captivated thousands of artists, designers, makers, hackers, and writers throughout the world. Just like today, the late 19th century was an age of rapid technological change, and writers such as Jules Verne and H.G. Wells commented on their time with fantastic stories that jumpstarted science fiction. Through interviews with experts such as William Gibson, Cory Doctorow, Bruce Sterling, James Gleick, and Margaret Atwood, this book looks into steampunk's vision of old-world craftsmen making beautiful hand-tooled gadgets, and what it says about our age of disposable technology. Steampunk is everywhere--as gadget prototypes at Maker Faire, novels, and comic books, paintings and photography, sculptures, fashion design, and music. Discover how this elaborate view of a history that never existed can help us reimagine our future.
Kant’s Humorous Writings
Kant’s Humorous Writings - 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 Kant’s Humorous Writings write by Robert R. Clewis. This book was released on 2020-11-12. Kant’s Humorous Writings available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. While Kant is commonly regarded as one of the most austere philosophers of all time, this book provides quite a different perspective of the founder of transcendental philosophy. Kant is often thought of as being boring, methodical, and humorless. Yet the thirty jokes and anecdotes collected and illustrated here for the first time reveal a man and a thinker who was deeply interested in how humor and laughter shape how we think, feel, and communicate with fellow human beings. In addition to a foreword on Kant's theory of humor by Noël Carroll as well as Clewis's informative chapters, Kant's Humorous Writings contains new translations of Kant's jokes, quips, and anecdotes. Each of the thirty excerpts is illustrated and supplemented by historical commentaries which explain their significance.
