On Humour

This is a fascinating and beautifully written book on what philosophy can tell us about humour and about what it is to be human. It will fascinate and intrigue anyone with a sense of humour.

Simon Critchley is Professor of Philosophy and Director for the Centre of Theoretical Studies at the University of Essex. He is the author of Ethics-Politics-Subjectivity (1999) and Very LittleAlmost Nothing (Routledge, 1997). His most recent book is Continental Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction (2001).

Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Is Humour Human?; Chapter 3 Laughing at Your Body - Post-Colonal Theory; Chapter 4 The Laughing Machine - a Note on Bergson and Wyndham Lewis; Chapter 5 Foreigners are Funny - the Ethicity and Ethnicity of Humour; Chapter 6 The Joke's on All of Us - Humour as Sensus Communis; Chapter 7 Why the Super-Ego is Your Amigo - My Sense of Humour and Freud's;