Laughter in eastern and western philosophies
Subtitle: proceedings of the Académie du Midi
By: Hans-Georg Moeller, Günter Wohlfart (eds.).
Contributors: Académie du Midi
Edition: Originalausg.
Series: Welten der Philosophie -- 3; Welten der Philosophie -- 3.
Publisher: Verlag Karl Alber
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Freiburg im Breisgau
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9783495483855
Subjects: Laughter; Philosophy; Congresses; Wit and humor; Laughter in literature
Notes: International conference proceedings.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Laughter in Mohist writings / Anna Ghiglione; title: Can Zhuangzi make Confucians laugh? : emotion, propriety, and the role of laughter / Robin R. Wang; title: From foolish laughter to foolish laughter : Zhuangzi's perspectivism leads to laughter / Paul D'Ambrosio; title: The modern Chinese word for humour (huaji) and its antecedents in the Zhuangzi and other early texts / Richard John Lynn; title: The ridiculousness of attachment in the Journey to the west / Franklin Perkins; title: "Why do birds shit on Buddha's head" : Zen and laughter / Robert E. Carter; title: What is there to laugh about in Buddhism? / Karl-Heinz Pohl; title: Comic verse in the classical Japanese literary tradition / Robert Borgen; title: Ludicrous professionals : physicians and priests in Japanese Senryû / William R. LaFleur; title: Irony, ambiguity, and laughter in Greek and Latin texts / Haijo Jan Westra; title: "Great laughter was in heaven" : roots and repercussions of a literary motif / Manfred Malzahn; title: Nietzsche's nascent laughter / Lorraine Markotic; title: Foolish wisdom in Benjamin's Kafka / Brendan Moran; title: Laughter as truth procedure : the evolution of comic form in Newfoundland / Stephen Crocker; title: Siddhartha, Socrates, and Zhuangzi : laughter across ancient civilizations / Alfredo P. Co; title: Transcendental laughter beyond enlightenment / Günter Wohlfart.