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Did you hear the One about the Philosopher Writing a Book on Humour?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 July 2009

Simon Critchley
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Abstract

Simon Critchley, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Essex, investigates humour. And tells some pretty good jokes.

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Research Article
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Think , Volume 1 , Issue 2 , Autumn 2002 , pp. 103 - 112
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 2002

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1 On Humour (Routledge: London and New York, 2002).Google Scholar

2 Bergson, Henri, Laughter (The Johns Hopkins University Press: Baltimore, 1980), p.65.Google Scholar

3 Wittgenstein, Ludwig, Culture and Value, ed. Von Wright, G.H. (Blackwell: Oxford, 1980), p. 83.Google Scholar

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11 From various Marx Brothers' scripts, Peter Chelsom's wonderful 1994 film Funny Bones, and Beckett's, SamuelEndgame (London: Faber, 1958).Google Scholar