Enjoyment

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Enjoyment

From laughter to delight in philosophy, literature, the fine arts, and aesthetics

edited byAnna-Teresa Tymieniecka

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Celebrating life

Joy, laughter, mirth, amusement, the smile of the soul...

pp.1-102

Table of contents

pp.v-vii

The rainbow of enjoyment

From elementary laughter to the swing of the human spirit

Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka

pp.xi-xiv

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The feast of life, joy and love

The laughter and smile of the soul

Marlies Kronegger

pp.3-31

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The Merchant of Venice: a triumph of discrepancy and mirth Judd Hubert

pp.33-41

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The smile of the mind: from Molière to Marivaux Cynthia Osowiec Ruoff

pp.43-56

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Reveries of well-being in the Shih-p'in

From psychology to ontology

Louise Sundararajan

pp.57-70

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Bergsonian laughter in Bernard Shaw's Back to Methuselah Merrill Horton

pp.71-76

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G. Cabrera Infante and Lewis Carroll

The aesthetics of laughter in contemporary Latin-American literature

Nancy Campi De Castro

pp.77-85

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Bracketing theory in Leonardo's five grotesque heads Patricia Trutty-Coohill

pp.87-102

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Aesthetics of the comic

pp.103-172

Not funny

Metaphor, dream and decapitation

Rob Baum

pp.105-125

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Exploring aesthetic discomfort in the experience of the comic and the tragic

John Marston's Antonio and Mellida and Antonio's revenge

Jadwiga Smith

pp.127-136

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Cannon aspirin

Wallace Stevens' defense of pleasure

Patricia Rae

pp.137-152

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The comedy of the false apperception

Wilde, Maugham, and Stoppard

Raymond J Wilson

pp.153-164

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Irony as a phenomenological technique Mara Stafecka

pp.165-172

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The circuits of laughter

pp.173-226

Philosophy, literature, and laughter

Notes on an ontology of the moment

Lawrence Kimmel

pp.175-184

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Comic rhythms in Leonardo da Vinci Patricia Trutty-Coohill

pp.185-202

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Plastic expression and intuition of being in Paul Tillich's theology Velga Vevere

pp.203-208

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Laughter and enjoyment

La Fontaine and Fragonard

Mary Elisabeth Mccullough

pp.209-226

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Laughter and aesthetic enjoyment

pp.227-265

Endgame: Beckett’s oriental subtext and the prison of consciousness James Sipple

pp.229-235

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Language and enjoyment — Heidegger and Eliot Bernadette Prochaska

pp.237-245

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T. S. Eliot and metaphysical laughter

A phenomenology of reading

William Melaney

pp.247-255

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Joyless laughter: Sophocles — Hesse — Beckett Hans Rudnick

pp.257-265

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Creative perspectives of enjoyment

pp.269-317

Inter-relation between music and literature and between silence and music in the novels by J. M. G. Le Clézio Isabelle Gillet

pp.269-280

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The unbearable lightness of being

Entr'acte as comedic interlude

Giovanna Costantini

pp.281-292

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Lu Xun's allegory of realism

Psychology and the aims of writing

Mao Chen

pp.293-299

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Naissance du poème, naissance au poème

La fabrique du pré de Francis Ponge

Serge Meitinger

pp.301-317

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Index of names

pp.319-324

Publication details

Publisher: Kluwer

Place: Dordrecht

Year: 1998

Pages: 329, xiv

Series: Analecta Husserliana

Series volume: 56

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-1425-9

ISBN (hardback): 9789048148899

ISBN (digital): 978-94-017-1425-9

Full citation:

Tymieniecka Anna-Teresa (1998) Enjoyment: From laughter to delight in philosophy, literature, the fine arts, and aesthetics. Dordrecht, Kluwer.