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Amir, Lydia

Lydia Amir is Visiting Professor at the Department of Philosophy, Tufts University, USA.


Philosophy, Humor, and the Human Condition</a>

Philosophy, Humor, and the Human Condition

This book presents an original worldview, Homo risibilis, wherein self-referential humor is proposed as the path leading from a tragic view of life to a liberating embrace of human ridicule. Humor is presented as a conceptual tool for holding together contradictions and managing the unresolvable conflict of the human condition till Homo risibilis resolves the inherent tension without epistemological cost.

Philosophy, Humor, and the Human Condition</a>

Philosophy, Humor, and the Human Condition

This book presents an original worldview, Homo risibilis, wherein self-referential humor is proposed as the path leading from a tragic view of life to a liberating embrace of human ridicule. Humor is presented as a conceptual tool for holding together contradictions and managing the unresolvable conflict of the human condition till Homo risibilis resolves the inherent tension without epistemological cost.