Laughter in Eastern and Western Philosophies

Proceedings of the Académie du Midi
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-3-495-48385-5
Verlag: Karl Alber Verlag

Buch, Multiple languages, Englisch, Band 3, 234 Seiten, KART, Format (B × H): 139 mm x 214 mm, Gewicht: 332 g

Reihe: Welten der Philosophie

This anthology looks at laughter through intercultural and interdisciplinary perspectives. It focuses on humoristic aspects of East-Asian philosophies such as Daoism and Zen Buddhism as well as on the use of irony and wit by Western authors ranging from ancient Greece to contemporary Newfoundland.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Moeller, Hans-Georg

Wohlfart, Günter

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Nicht-Westliche Philosophie Interkulturelle Philosophie, Weltphilosophie

Über Autor(innen)

Guenter Wohlfart, born 1943 in Frankfurt /Germany, studied philosophy, German literature and psychoanalysis in Germany. As a young man he taught at different German universities specializing in German Idealism and ancient Greek philosophy. He published books on Kant (Ph.D. thesis), Hegel (Habilitation), Nietzsche, and Heraclitus. His main fields of research were aesthetics and philosophy of language. After his transcultural turn he dealt with Zen-Buddhism and philosophical Daoism.
As a visiting professor he taught in Mainland China, Japan, Korea and Taiwan. He published books on Zen, Laozi and Zhuangzi. His main fields of research are comparative philosophy and ancient Chinese
thinking. Since his retirement, Wohlfart lives in his mountain cottage in Southern France.(www.guenter-wohlfart.de)

Hans-Georg Moeller, born in 1964, is a Senior Lecturer at the Philosophy Department at University College Cork in Cork, Ireland. His research focuses on Chinese and Comparative Philosophy and on the social theory of Niklas Luhmann. Among his book publications are: Daoism Explained. From the Dream of the Butterfly to the Fishnet Allegory. (Chicago: Open Court, 2004), The Philosophy of the Daodejing (New York: Columbia University Press, 2006), Luhmann Explained. From Souls to Systems (Chicago: Open Court. 2006), Daodejing

(Laozi). A Complete Translation and Commentary. (Chicago: Open Court, 2007) as well as a treatise in defence of amorality: The Moral Fool. A Case for Amorality. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2009).