Disparagement humor in social life : competition vs. subjugation / Nathan Miczo.
"This book critiques the superiority theory of disparagement humor, rooted in Hobbes's definition of laughter. Nathan Miczo offers the agōn (Greek for contest) as a metaphor to demonstrate how within- and between-group dynamics shape the creation and reception of disparagement humor"-...
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Lanham :
Lexington Books,
[2022]
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Table of Contents:
- Humor and the agon
- Hobbes on humor
- Humor after Hobbes
- Homo societas
- Laughing at outsiders
- Laughing at insiders
- Laughing on the borders
- Laughing under Leviathan.