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This volume offers twelve original essays that explore the moral quagmire that is the emotion of amusement. It considers its moral psychology a range of perspectives, going as far back as ancient Chinese and Greek philosophy up to the most current psychological and sociological findings.
List of contents
Part I - The Nature of Amusement / 1. Splitting Guts: Amusement, Bemusement, and the Moral Psychology of Shame Lauren Olin / 2. LOL: What we can learn from insincere laughter Dan Shargel / 3. Beyond a Joke: A Defence of Comic Moralism Alan Roberts / 4. That's Not Funny Brian Mondy / Part II - The Ethics of Amusement / 5. You Shouldn't Have Laughed! The Ethics of Derogatory Amusement Andrew Morgan & Ralph DiFranco / 6. The Ethics of Comedy Tristan Nash / 7. Resisting and Resistant Amusement Corwin Aragon / 8. Amused by the Outrageous: The Morally Tempering Effect of News Satire Rasmus Rosenberg Larsen & David Sackris / 9. Wit as a Social Virtue Andrew Jordan & Stephanie Patridge / 10. It's All Fun and Games until Someone Gets Hurt: Amusement's Negative Influence on Moral Judgment Nathan Stout / Part III - Ancient Perspectives on Amusement / 11. Plato on the Value of Amusement Oksana Maksymchuk / 12. Zhuangzi's Moral Psychology and Humor: The Playful Liberation of Self, Others, and Society Carl Joseph Helsing / 13. Engaging the Moral Imagination: Amusements and the Emotional Functions of Remembering and Forgetting Guy Axtell
About the author
Brian Robinson is assistant professor of philosophy at Texas A&M University-Kingsville.
Summary
This volume offers twelve original essays that explore the moral quagmire that is the emotion of amusement. It considers its moral psychology a range of perspectives, going as far back as ancient Chinese and Greek philosophy up to the most current psychological and sociological findings.
