Continental Philosophy 2008-07-02

Isn’t it funny?

NYRB: By Mary Beard Stop Me If You’ve Heard This: A History and Philosophy of Jokes, by Jim Holt Looking at Laughter: Humor, Power, and Transgression in Roman Visual Culture, 100 BC–AD 250, by John R. Clarke Just over halfway up the Column of Marcus Aurelius in Rome is a memorable, and unsettling, scene. Although practically invisible from [...]

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