Kant's Humorous Writings: An Illustrated Guide

Kant's Humorous Writings offers a new perspective on the founder of transcendental philosophy, revealing a man deeply interested in how humor and laughter shape how we think, feel, and communicate with others. The book includes thirty jokes, quips, and anecdotes, with new translations and historical commentaries, illustrated and supplemented by historical commentaries.

Format: Hardback
Length: 280 pages
Publication date: 12 November 2020
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

While Kant is commonly regarded as one of the most austere philosophers of all time, this book provides quite a different perspective of the founder of transcendental philosophy. Kant is often thought of as being boring, methodical, and humorless. Yet the thirty jokes and anecdotes collected and illustrated here for the first time reveal a man and a thinker who was deeply interested in how humor and laughter shape how we think, feel, and communicate with fellow human beings. In addition to a foreword on Kant's theory of humor by Noël Carroll, as well as Clewiss informative chapters, Kant's Humorous Writings contains new translations of Kant's jokes, quips, and anecdotes. Each of the thirty excerpts is illustrated and supplemented by historical commentaries that explain their significance.

While Kant is commonly regarded as one of the most austere philosophers of all time, this book provides quite a different perspective of the founder of transcendental philosophy. Kant is often thought of as being boring, methodical, and humorless. Yet the thirty jokes and anecdotes collected and illustrated here for the first time reveal a man and a thinker who was deeply interested in how humor and laughter shape how we think, feel, and communicate with fellow human beings. In addition to a foreword on Kant's theory of humor by Noël Carroll, as well as Clewiss informative chapters, Kant's Humorous Writings contains new translations of Kant's jokes, quips, and anecdotes. Each of the thirty excerpts is illustrated and supplemented by historical commentaries that explain their significance.

Weight: 474g
Dimension: 145 x 222 x 24 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781350112780