TY  - BOOK
AU  - Berger,Peter L.
TI  - Redeeming laughter: the comic dimension of human experience 
SN  - 9783110810660 (electronic bk.)
AV  - BR115.C63 B47 1997eb
U1  - 233 22
PY  - 1997///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Walter de Gruyter
KW  - Comedy
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Wit and humor
KW  - Het komische
KW  - gtt
KW  - Comic, The
KW  - Comique
KW  - Aspect religieux
KW  - Christianisme
KW  - Humour
KW  - ram
KW  - RELIGION / Christian Theology / Anthropology
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; Self-Serving Explanations and Unsolicited Compliments -- The Comic Intrusion -- Philosophers of the Comic, and the Comedy of Philosophy -- Laughing Monks: A Very Brief Sinitic Interlude -- Homo Ridens: Physiology and Psychology --  Homo Ridiculus: Social Constructions of the Comic -- Interlude: Brief Reflections on Jewish Humor -- The Comic as Diversion: Benign Humor -- The Comic as Consolation: Tragicomedy -- The Comic as Game of Intellect: Wit -- The Comic as Weapon: Satire -- Interlude: The Eternal Return of Folly -- The Folly of Redemption -- Interlude: On Grim Theologians -- The Comic as a Signal of Transcendence
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