Overview

Amusement is an emotion with power. It has the power to make us laugh, but it can also have a power over us (for good or for ill) to control our attention or memory. Amusement can empower our resistance to oppression, or it can itself become an oppressive force. Our amusement can make others feel shame. Amusement even has the power to affect (and be affected by) out moral assessment of others. This volume offers twelve essays from leading and emerging scholars that explore the moral quagmire that is the emotion of amusement. It is a collection that considers the moral psychology of amusement from a range of perspectives, going as far back as ancient Chinese and Greek philosophy up to the most current psychological and sociological findings.

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Author:   Brian Robinson, Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Publisher:   Rowman & Littlefield International
Imprint:   Rowman & Littlefield International
Dimensions:   Width: 16.10cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 22.70cm
Weight:   0.640kg
ISBN:  

9781786613295

ISBN 10:   1786613298
Pages:   160
Publication Date:   12 October 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock  
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Table of Contents

Part I - The Nature of Amusement / 1. Splitting Guts: Amusement, Bemusement, and the Moral Psychology of Shame Lauren Olin / 2. LOL: What we can learn from insincere laughter Dan Shargel / 3. Beyond a Joke: A Defence of Comic Moralism Alan Roberts / 4. That's Not Funny Brian Mondy / Part II - The Ethics of Amusement / 5. You Shouldn't Have Laughed! The Ethics of Derogatory Amusement Andrew Morgan & Ralph DiFranco / 6. The Ethics of Comedy Tristan Nash / 7. Resisting and Resistant Amusement Corwin Aragon / 8. Amused by the Outrageous: The Morally Tempering Effect of News Satire Rasmus Rosenberg Larsen & David Sackris / 9. Wit as a Social Virtue Andrew Jordan & Stephanie Patridge / 10. It's All Fun and Games until Someone Gets Hurt: Amusement's Negative Influence on Moral Judgment Nathan Stout / Part III - Ancient Perspectives on Amusement / 11. Plato on the Value of Amusement Oksana Maksymchuk / 12. Zhuangzi's Moral Psychology and Humor: The Playful Liberation of Self, Others, and Society Carl Joseph Helsing / 13. Engaging the Moral Imagination: Amusements and the Emotional Functions of Remembering and Forgetting Guy Axtell

Reviews

The Moral Psychology of Amusement is what would happen if a philosopher, a psychologist, a sociolinguist, and a classicist walked into a bar. As interdisciplinary as it is rigorous, this is a tour de force that is sure to become a must-have in the field. -- Steven Gimbel, Gettysburg College

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Brian Robinson is assistant professor of philosophy at Texas A&M University-Kingsville.

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