Discover what humor is from the perspective of history’s great philosophers.
Overview
Syllabus
- By This Professor
- 01: The Universality of Humor
- 02: The Objectivity of Humor
- 03: The Science of Laughter
- 04: Truth and Humor
- 05: Comedy and Tragedy
- 06: Irony and Truth
- 07: Satires, Parodies, and Spoofs
- 08: Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One: Jokes
- 09: Theories of Humor
- 10: Superiority Theory
- 11: Inferiority Theory
- 12: Play Theory
- 13: Relief Theory
- 14: Incongruity Theory
- 15: Cleverness Theory
- 16: Humor Theory Revisited
- 17: Humor Ethics: Boundaries and Limitations
- 18: Who Can Tell Ethnic Jokes?
- 19: Comic Moralism
- 20: Situational Ethics and Humor
- 21: The Necessity of Humor
- 22: Comedian Ethics
- 23: Socially Progressive Comedy
- 24: Ridiculousness and the Human Condition
Taught by
Steven Gimbel, Ph.D.
