Index
Abel, Lionel, ,
Absurd, absurdity, , –, , , , –, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , –,
The “absurd,”
Credo quia absurdum,
philosophers of the,
theatre of the, –
Abraham,
Abraham, Karl, –
Abrahamic religions,
Absalom, Absalom (Faulkner),
Adams, Reginald B. Jr.,
Adamsen, Johannes,
Addison, Joseph, , , ,
Augustan satiric reformer,
cheerfulness,
editor of the Spectator,
journalist,
raillery,
and Shaftesbury,
and Socratic irony,
Adkin, Neil,
Aesop, ,
Agassi, Joseph, –,
Agathon,
Akenside, Mark, , , , , ,
laughter, –
The Pleasures of Imagination, ,
ridicule as an independent sense, –
ridicule as the test of truth, –
Alcibiades,
Alcuin,
Aldridge, Alfred Owen, , –, , , , ,
ridicule as a test of truth, –,
the ridicule controversy, ,
Alexander, William M., –
Alford, Steven,
Allen, Julie K., ,
Allison, Henri E., ,
Ambivalence, , , , , –, , , , , , –
and humor, –
Amir, Lydia B., ,
“Kierkegaard and the traditions of the comic,”
Laughter and the Good Life, ,
the new age,
Nietzsche’s French Laughing Followers,
the relation of philosophy to the comic,
self-referential humor as a virtue,
Anabaptists,
Andersen, Albert,
Antisthenes,
Anz, W.,
The Apocalypse of Peter,
Apte, Mahadev,
Apter, Michael,
Apuleius, Lucius, ,
Aquinas, Thomas, , , , ,
rules for laughter,
self-knowledge,
wit or eutrapelia, ,
Architecture, , ,
Arendt, Hannah,
Argyle, Michael,
Aristotle, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
on anagnorisis (recognition),
on the analogy between Christ and Socrates,
and Aquinas,
Categories,
and Cicero,
and Climacus, –,
definition of comedy,
eutrapelia,
eutrapelos (ready-witted),
on good-natured laughter,
on Gorgias Leontinus,
and Horace,
on the ironical man,
and Kierkegaard,
laughter as the mark of the human (homo ridens), , , ,
Nicomachean Ethics, , –
On the Parts of Animals,
and Panaetius,
Poetics,
Rhetoric,
on self-knowledge,
Shaftesbury on,
as Shaftesbury’s model, , , ,
and Theophrastus, ,
theory of tragedy,
use of epistle,
wit as a virtue, , , –,
Aristophanes, , , , , ,
comedies, –
Frogs,
laughter and moral purpose,
Shaftesbury on,
Asceticism, ,
Ascetics,
Astell, Mary (Mr. Wooton),
Attardo, Salvatore,
Augustine of Hippo, St.
on the analogy between Christ and Socrates,
Confessions, ,
on inner dialogue,
and Kierkegaard, , ,
on self-knowledge,
Aurelius, Marcus,
as a model for Shaftesbury,
Badelon, Françoise,
Bakhtin, Mikhail, , ,
Ball, Martha Chalene,
Ballesteros, Antonio,
Banter, , , , ,
bantering spirit,
Barnett, M. A.,
Barrett, Lee C., ,
Barrow, Issac (Latitudinarian Divine),
Basil, St., , ,
Basu, Samy, , ,
Bataille, Georges, , ,
Baudelaire, Charles, , ,
on absolute comic versus significative comic,
Homo ridens,
on ridicule,
Bauman, Zygmunt,
Baur, Ferdinand Christian,
Bayer, Oswald, ,
acquaintance with Shaftesbury,
Dictionary,
introducing Spinoza’s thought to Shaftesbury,
and Shaftesbury’s thought, , ,
Beabout, Gregory,
Beattie, James, , , , ,
on the association of laughter and distress,
discarding the superiority theory of humor,
distinction between wit and humor,
Elements of Moral Science,
Essay on Laughter and Ludicrous Composition,
on the role of humor in moral education,
and Shaftesbury,
subsuming superiority under incongruity,
Beck, Andreas Frederik,
Beckett, Samuel,
Behler, Ernst,
Beistegui, Miguel de, ,
Bell, Catherine,
Benda, Frederick Joseph,
Benda, W.,
Ben-Ze’ev, Aaron, , ,
on ambivalence,
on comparison,
on shame and humor,
Berdiaev, Nikolai,
Berens, Christoph,
Berger, Arthur A., ,
Berger, Douglas L.,
Berger, Peter L., ,
on humor in Christianity,
on Luther’s humor,
on the tragic-comic,
Bergson, Henri, , , , , , , , ,
on Freud,
on homo risibilis,
on humor, ,
on irony,
Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic, , ,
positive and normative superiority thesis,
on self-ignorance as comical, ,
and Shaftesbury,
Berkeley, George, ,
Alciphron, or The Minute Philosopher, ,
on ridicule as the test of truth,
Berlin, Isaiah,
on Hamann, , ,
Berlyne, Daniel E.,
Besse, Pierre de,
Bible, the, , , , , . See also the Gospels, New Testament, Old Testament
Billig, Michael,
Blachowicz, James,
Blackwell, Kenneth,
Blanshard, Brand, ,
Bleuler, Eugen,
on ambivalence,
Zentralblatt,
Bloom, Harold,
Blyth, R. H.,
Boethius,
Bolinbroke, Henri,
Booker, Christopher, –
Booth, Wayne,
Borchert, Bruno,
Borowski, L. E.,
Boss, Dennis,
Botting, Fred,
Brahman,
Brett, Richard L., , , , ,
on the controversy about ridicule, ,
on Shaftesbury’s view of ridicule
Brown, John,
critic of Shaftesbury, , ,
on ridicule, –
Brugère, Fabienne, ,
Bruno, Giodarno,
Buckley, Francis, –, ,
Buddha, the
Discourse on the Parable of the Water Snake (Alagaddūpama Sutta), Majjhima Nikāya of the Pāli Canon, The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha,
Buddhist, Buddhism, , , ,
Buffoon, , , , . See also clown, harlequin
Buffoonery, , , , , , , , , , , , ,
Buffooning,
Bulkeley, Charles,
Burgess, Andrew,
Burke, Peter,
Burton, Robert
The Anatomy of Melancholy,
on enthusiasm, ,
Bush, B.,
Butler, Joseph, ,
Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed,
Cain, David,
Campbell, George,
distinction between wit and humor,
and Hobbes,
Camus, Albert, , ,
on the absurd,
on irony,
The Myth of Sisyphus,
sense of humor,
State of Siege,
The Stranger,
Capel, Lee M.,
Caricature, ,
Carlyle, Thomas, , , ,
on humor,
on the humorist, ,
on laughter,
Carmody, Denise Lardner,
Carmody, John Tully,
Caputi, Jane,
Casati, Ennemond,
Cassirer, Ernst, ,
on Herder and Shaftesbury,
on Shaftesbury’s influence,
on Shaftesbury’s view of ridicule as the test of truth, –,
Catholic,
Catholic Church,
Catholicism,
Cato the Elder,
Cato Uticensis,
Cazamien, Louis, ,
Cervantes, , ,
Don Quijote,
Chafe, Wallace, –
Chao-Chih, Liao,
Chaplin, Charlie,
Charney, Maurice,
Chat, chatter, ,
Chaucer, Geoffrey,
Cheerfulness, , , , , , , , , , . See also Shaftesbury on good humor
Addison on,
Herder on, –
Kant on,
Spinoza on, ,
Chinese philosophy, ancient,
Chirpaz, François,
Chrysostom, John, , ,
Chuang Tzu,
Christie, W. D.,
De Officiis, ,
De Oratore, ,
on good-natured humor,
on the liberal jest, ,
and the Peripatetic tradition,
on Socrates,
Cioran, ,
Clarke, Samuel, ,
Clement of Alexandria,
Clooney, Francis,
Clowes, Edith W.,
Clown, , ,
Cohen, Sheldon,
Cohen, Hermann,
Cohen, Ted, –
Jokes,
Collins, Anthony, ,
Discourse Concerning Ridicule and Irony,
Collins, James,
Comic, the, –. See also Shaftesbury, Hamann, Kierkegaard
comedy and tragedy, –
and the tragic, –
Comte-Sponville, André,
Confucianism,
Connell, George,
Conway, Daniel,
Contempt, , , , , , . See also scorn
Self-contempt,
Contemptible, , , , ,
Cooper, David E., –
Cooper, Mick,
Cornford, Francis M., ,
Corrigan, Robert W., ,
Corsair, the, , , , ,
affair, , , –, ,
Corsini, R. J.,
The Dictionary of Psychology,
Coste, Peter, , –,
Cox, Harvey,
Critchley, Simon, , , –, –, ,
Cross, Andrew, –, , , ,
Crossan, John Dominic, , –
Cynics, Cynicism, , , , , , –, , , , ,
Daly, Mary,
Daub, Karl,
Davenport, Manuel M., ,
Davies, Christie,
Davis, Dineh,
Davis, Jessica Milner, ,
de Cusa, Nicholas,
de Hales, Alexandre,
Death, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
Deleuze, Gilles, , ,
Demeter,
Demetrius,
Democritus
The Christian Democritus (Pierre de Besse),
the “laughing philosopher,” , , , , , ,
Demonax,
Dennett, Daniel, , ,
Dennis, John,
Descartes, René,
on joy,
on laughter,
on mockery,
on self-knowledge,
and Shaftesbury,
Desmond, William,
Deupmann-Frohues, C.,
Dickens, Charles,
Diels, Hermann,
Diem, Hermann,
Diogenes of Babylon,
Diogenes, the Cynic, , , , ,
Don Quixote, ,
Dostoevsky, ,
The Brothers Karamazov, ,
Crime and Punishment,
Drever, J.,
A Dictionary of Psychology,
Dryden, John, ,
Dudley, Donald R.,
Dunning, N. Stephen, ,
Durkheim, Emile, ,
Dziemidok, Bohdan, , , ,
Eagleton, Terry,
Eastman, Max, , , ,
The Sense of Humor,
Eckel, Malcolm D.,
Eckardt, Roy,
Edwards, Mark,
Ehre, Itay, ,
Eisenberg, N.,
Ellis, A.,
Elrod, W. John, ,
Emerson, Ralph W., ,
Emmanuel, Steven M.,
Empedocles,
theory of the four roots,
Enjoyment, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , –. See also joy
Epictetus, , , , , , , –
The Discourses, ,
on laughter,
as a model for Shaftesbury, –, , ,
Epicureanism, , ,
Epicurus,
Epistemology, epistemological, , , , , , , , , , , ,
Climacus’ and Kierkegaard’s negative epistemology, , , ,
Hamann’s theological epistemology,
Kierkegaard’s Christian epistemology, ,
Shaftesbury’s,
Stoic,
Erasmus, Desiderius, , , , , , , , , , , –
Convivium Religiosum,
Praise of Folly, , , ,
Sileni Alcibiadis,
Esslin, Martin,
Eulenspiegel, Tyll,
Hamann as,
Evans, C. Stephen, , , , , ,
Eysenck, H. J.,
Feast of Fools, ,
Folly, , , , ,
comic,
Divine, , , ,
gracing of, –
philosophical,
Praise of Folly (Moriae encomium) (Eramus), , , ,
Stultitia, ,
universal,
and wisdom, , ,
Foolish, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , . See also absurd, folly, fool, foolishness, homo risibilis
Foolishness, , , , , , , . See also folly, fool, foolish
Fool, , , , , , , , , , , . See also folly, foolish, foolishness, homo risibilis
in Christ’s name,
God as,
Hegelian,
holy, , ,
philosophers as,
wise, ,
Fedotov, G. P.,
Fenvers, Peter,
Ferreira, M. Jamie, ,
Feuerbach, Ludwig, ,
Fichte, Johann Gottlieb,
Fisher, Rhoda L.,
Fisher, Seymour,
Fiske, George Converse,
Flugel, J. C.,
Fowler, Edward, , ,
Reflections upon A Letter Concerning Enthusiasm,
Francis of Assisi, St.,
Frankfurt, Harry, ,
Freedom, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , . See also release
Freud, Sigmund, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
Der Humor, ,
Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious, –
New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis,
The Rat Man,
Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality,
Freudenburg, Kirk,
Fridja, Nico H., ,
Fry, William F., , ,
Frye, Northop,
The Argument of Comedy,
Gadamer, Hans-Georg,
Galen of Pergamum,
Galle, Rolland,
Garber, Frederick,
Garff, Joakim, , , , ,
Gashé, Rodolphe, ,
Gelven, Michael, , ,
Truth and the Comedic Art, ,
Georgopoulos, N.,
Gera, Deborah Levine,
Gerard, A.,
Gerson, L.,
German, Terence J.,
Giddens, Anthony,
Gilhus, Ingvild Saelid, , ,
Gill, Michael B.,
Giora, Rachel,
Glenn, John D., ,
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, , , , , , ,
Goldschmidt, Meir (editor of the Corsair),
Goldsmith, Marcella Tarozzi, , ,
Goldsmith, Oliver,
Goldstein, Jeffrey H.,
Golomb, Jacob, , ,
Good life, the, , –. See also humor, the comic, Shaftesbury, Hamann, Kierkegaard
humor and laughter in philosophers’ view of, –
Kierkegaard on, –
Shaftesbury on, –
Gordon, Paul, ,
Gordon, Walter M., ,
Gorgias Leontinus,
Aristotle on,
on laughter’s rhetorical power,
The Mocking Philosopher,
Shaftesbury on,
Gospels, the, , , –, , , –, –. See also the Bible, New Testament
The Gospel of Judas,
Gouwens, David J., , , ,
Gover, K. E.,
Grant, Mary A., ,
Grean, Stanley, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
Greek, ancient, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , –, , , , , ,
Green, Ronald M.,
Greenfield, William,
On the Ludicrous,
Greenspan, Patricia S.,
“Ambivalence and the Logic of Emotion,”
Gregory, J. C., ,
Gritsch, Eric,
Grossman, S.,
Grotius, Hugo,
The Rights of War and Peace,
Grotjhan, M.,
Gruner, Charles R.,
Guignon, Charles B.,
Gurewitch, Morton, ,
Gutwirth, Marcel,
Habermas, Jürgen,
The Structural Transformation of the Bourgeois Public Sphere,
Hacket, John (Latitudinarian Divine),
Hamann, Johann Georg, –, –, , , , , , , –
on the good life, –
on humor and irony as categories of the understanding, –
coincidence of opposites,
Kneschtsgestalt Christi, , ,
metaschematism, , –, , , –
Stillbruch, , ,
influence on Kierkegaard, , , –
link between Shaftesbury and Kierkegaard, ,
Hannay, Alastair, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
“Humour and the Irascible Soul,”
Happiness, , –, –, , , , , , , ,
eternal happiness, , , , –, , , , , , , , , –, –, , ,
future happiness,
Nietzsche on,
Spinoza on,
Harbsmeier, C.,
Harlequin, ,
Harmony, , , , , –, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
t’ Hart, Marjolein,
Humor and Social Protest,
Hartmann, Eduard von, ,
Hassidism,
Haury, Auguste,
Hay, Sergia Karen,
Hayman, John,
The Heart of Darkness (Conrad),
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , –,
Aesthetics,
The Phenomenology of Spirit,
Hegelian, Hegelianism, , , , , , , , , ,
Danish,
as fantastic,
fool,
as laughable, –,
post-, –
tragic-comic, –
view of the comic,
Heiberg, Johan Ludvig, , , , , ,
Heidegger, Martin,
Hellenistic, philosophers and schools, , , , –, , –, , , ,
Heller, Agnes, , , , ,
Immortal Comedy, ,
Hendrickson, G. L.,
Hepburn, Ronald W.,
Heraclitus, , ,
the “weeping philosopher,” , ,
Herder, Johann Gottfried von, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
Brife zur Beförderung der Humanität,
Conversations on God,
“Shaftesbury, Geist und Frohsinn,” Adrastea, –,
Herzog, T.,
Hibernicus’ Letters,
Hinduism, Hindu, , , ,
Hippocrates, ,
Hippolyte, Jean,
Hobbes, Thomas, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
Human Nature,
on laughter, –
Leviathan,
Holberg, Ludwig, , , , ,
Hölderlin,
Homo ludens,
Homo ridens, ,
Homo risibilis, , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
Hong, Edna, , , –
Hong, Howard V., , , , ,
Horace, , , , , , , , ,
Ars poetica,
Satires,
Howland, Jacob, ,
Huizinga, Johann, ,
Hume, David, , , , , , , , ,
Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding,
Treatise on Human Nature,
Humor, –. See also Shaftesbury, Hamann, Kierkegaard
benefits of, –
enjoying incongruities, –
and the good life, –
19th and 20th centuries views of, –
role of in living with irresolvable conflict, –
role of in self-knowledge, conflict awareness and deliberation, –
self-referential, –
sense of, –
theories of, –
Humoralism (theory of humoral types),
Hurley, Matthew M., , ,
Inside Jokes: Using Humor to Reverse-Engineer the Mind (Hurley et al.),
Huskinson, Lucy,
Hutcheson, Francis, , , , , , , , , , ,
Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue,
Reflections upon Laughter, ,
Hyers, M. Conrad, , , , , , , , ,
Hyman, Stanley Edgar,
Ibbott, Benjamin,
A Course of Sermons,
Ignatius of Antioch,
Il Generale della Rovere (Rossellini),
Ill-humor, , , . See also illtemper, melancholy
Ill-temper, ,
Indian Tantrism,
Inwood, B.,
Ionesco, Eugène,
The Chairs,
Irony, ironic, , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
Bergson on,
and Christianity,
Erasmic,
Greek, ,
Hamann on, , , , –
Hegel on,
inferior to humor, –, , , , , ,
Jean Paul on, ,
Kierkegaard as, , –, , , , –
Kierkegaard on, , –, , , , –, , , –, , , , –, , , –, –,
Romantic, , –, ,
Shaftesbury as,
Shaftesbury on, , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
Schopenhauer on, –
Socratic, , , , , , –, –, ,
Islam,
Isocrates,
Jachman, R. B.,
Jacobi, F. H., , ,
Jaffro, Laurent, , , , ,
Jankélévitch, Vladimir, , ,
Jaspers, Karl,
Jean Paul, , , , , , , –, , , , , ,
Jarvie, Ian, –
Jensen, Finn Gredal,
Jerome, ,
Jesuits,
Jews, , , ,
Israelites,
the wandering Jew,
Jewish, . See also Judaism
Johansen, Karsten Friis,
Johnson, Gregory R., , ,
Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets,
Jones, Ernest,
Joplin, David A.,
Jørgensen, Sven-Aage, ,
Joubert, Laurens, ,
Joy, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , –, , , , , , , . See also enjoyment
Judaism, , . See also Jews, Jewish
Jung, Carl G.,
Juvenal, ,
Satires,
Kaiser, Walter, , ,
Kallen, Horace M., , ,
Kames, Lord, , ,
Kant, Immanuel, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
Critique of Judgement,
Critique of Pure Reason,
Dreams of a Spirit-Seer,
on laughter,
on Shaftesbury, ,
Sickness of the Head,
Kaufmann, Walter, , , , , ,
Keith-Speigel, Patricia,
Kekes, John, , , , ,
Moral Wisdom and Good Lives,
Kelly, Erin,
Kierkegaard, Søren, –, –, –, –
A (Kierkegaard’s pseudonym), , ,
Anti-Climacus (Kierkegaard’s pseudonym), , , , , , , , , , –
the comic, –
in communication, –
as contradiction, –
as legitimate and illegitimate, –
and the tragic, –
the comic and humor in the good life, –
Christianity and laughter, –
Christianization of humor and the comic, –
the comic’s role in inwardness, –
Kierkegaard and Shaftesbury on humor and the good life, –
Constantin Constantius (Kierkegaard’s pseudonym), , , , ,
and Erasmus, –
Frater Taciturnus (Kierkegaard’s pseudonym), , , , , ,
the good life, –
becoming a self, –
the human telos, –
subjective thinking, –
Hilarius Bookbinder (Kierkegaard’s pseudonym), ,
humor, –
at the boundary of religion, –
as intrinsic to Christianity, –
as a life-view, –
as a mask, –
irony, –
as a defining characteristic of Kierkegaard, –
as a life-view, –
as lower than humor, –
as a mask, –
as a tool, –
Johannes Climacus (Kierkegaard’s pseudonym), , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
Johannes de Silencio (Kierkegaard’s pseudonym), ,
Johannes the Seducer (Kierkegaard’s pseudonym), ,
Judge Williams (Kierkegaard’s pseudonym), ,
Nicolaus Notabene (Kierkegaard’s pseudonym),
originality of, –
Quidam (Kierkegaard’s pseudonym), , , , , , ,
reference to Shaftesbury, –
Victor Eremita (Kierkegaard’s pseudonym), ,
Vigilius Haufniensis (Kierkegaard’s pseudonym), , , , , , , ,
Kern, Edith,
Kerr, Walter, , , , ,
Kirmmse, Bruce, ,
Kitcher, Philip,
Klein, Lawrence, , , , , , –, , , , , , , ,
Klein, Melanie,
Kleinert, Markus,
Kline, L. W.,
Knox, Norman, ,
Koestler Arthur, , ,
Kohn, Livia,
Koller, Marvin, ,
Kramer, D. A.,
Kranz, Walther,
Krieger, Murray, , ,
Kuipers, Giselinde,
Kuklick, Bruce,
Kupperman, Joel, ,
Kuschel, Karl-Josef, ,
Kutscher, Arthur, ,
La Bruyère, Jean de,
La Fontaine, Jean,
La Rochefoucauld, François de,
Labarrière, Jean-Louis,
Labeo, Notker, ,
Laertius, Diogenes, , ,
Lives of Eminent Philosophers, , ,
Land, Nick,
Lang, Candace,
Lang, Frederick Albert,
Langer, Susanne K., ,
Langston, Douglas,
Larthomas, Jean-Paul, , , , , , , , , ,
Latitudinarians, , , –,
Law, David R., ,
Le Goff, Jacques, ,
Leacock, Stephen, , , ,
LeClerc, Jean, ,
Liebman, Joshua Loth, ,
Leibniz, G. W. von, , , , , , , , , , , , ,
Theodicy,
Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim, , , , , ,
Lévi-Strauss, Claude, ,
Lewis, Michael,
Lewis, Peter B.,
Lippitt, John A., , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
Humor and Irony in Kierkegaard’s Thought, ,
Lipps, Theodor, , ,
Livingston, Donald W.,
Locke, John, , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding,
Some Thoughts Concerning Education, ,
On wit,
Long, Anthony A., ,
Long Day’s Journey into Night (O’Neil),
Lorenz, Konrad, , , ,
Losev, Aleksei,
Lowrie, Walter, , , –, ,
Lucian of Samosata, , , , , ,
Lucilius,
Luckman, Thomas, ,
Lund, F. H.,
Lutheranism, Lutherans . See also Protestantism, Lutheran
MacHovec, Frank J.,
Mackey, Louis, , , , ,
Maecenas,
Magnus, Albertus,
Magnus, Bernard, ,
Malantschuk, Gregor, , ,
Malebranche, Nicolas,
Malherbe, Michel, ,
Malinowski, Bronislaw,
Mamardashvili, Merab,
Mandel, Oscar,
Mandeville, Bernard, , ,
The Fable of the Bees,
Manheimer, Roland,
Mann, David,
Manuel, Frank,
Marinoff, Louis,
Marmysz, John,
Laughing at Nothing: Humor as a Response to Nihilism,
Marshall, David, ,
Martensen, Hans Lassen, , , , , , , , , , , ,
Martin, Bernard,
Martin, Rod, , , , , , , ,
Marx, Karl, , ,
Der 18te Brumaire des Louis Napoleon,
Maslow, Abraham,
Mathematics,
Mattila, Antti,
May, Rollo,
McCarthy, Vincent A., , , , , , , , , , , , ,
The Phenomenology of Moods in Kierkegaard,
McConnel, T. C.,
McFadden, George, ,
Mead, George Herbert,
Meidan, Abraham,
Melancholy, , , , , , , , , , . See also illhumor, ill-temper
The Anatomy of Melancholy (Burton)
and the best sense of the comic, ,
Dane, ,
Demeter cured from,
of Don Quijote,
enthusiasm as the product of, , –
Ficino on,
Freud on,
humor as a cure to, , , , ,
the humorist as,
inner,
Kant on,
of Kierkegaard,
Louis Joubert on,
“love-melancholy,”
and love of self,
and religion, , ,
and religious nature,
romantic,
satire as the outcome of, –
Spinoza on, ,
and theory of “humors,”
and the tragic vision, ,
Melanchton, Philipp,
Ménager, Daniel, ,
Menander, , ,
Menippus of Gedara,
Menon, V. K.,
Merton, Robert K., ,
Mesnard, Pierre, ,
Metaphysical, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , . See also metaphysics
Metaphysics, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , . See also metaphysical
Michel, Laurence,
Miller, David L., –
Miller, William I., , ,
Faking It,
The Anatomy of Disgust,
Minsky, M.,
Minois, Georges, , ,
Moby Dick (Melville),
Mockery, , , –, , , , , , , , , . See also contempt, scorn
Jocositas, ,
Molière,
Monro, D. H., ,
Montaigne, Michel de, , , , , , , , ,
Montesquieu, Baron de,
Moody, Raymond A.,
McPherson, Lionel,
More, Thomas, ,
Morreall, John, , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
Comedy, Tragedy, and Religion,
Morris, Corbyn,
Morris, T. F., , ,
Moser, Friedrich Carl von, ,
Mueke, D. C.,
Mulkay, M., ,
Muller, Herbert J.,
Murray, Donald, ,
Music, , , , , , ,
Myers, Henry Alonzon, , ,
Mynster, J. P., , ,
Mystical
experience, ,
One,
Mystics, ,
Mysticism, , , ,
Eastern,
Western, ,
Nagel, Thomas, , , , ,
Neo-Platonism, ,
Nerhardt, Goran,
Neubauer, Patrick, ,
Newton, Isaac Sir,
Nezu, A.,
New Testament, , , , , , , ,
See also the Bible, Gospels
Nicholson, Hugh,
Niebuhr, Reinhold, , , , ,
Nietzsche, Fredrich, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
Nilsen, Alleen Pace,
Nilsen, Don L. F., , ,
Nordentoft, Kresten, ,
Norrick, N. R.,
Novalis,
Nussbaum, Martha C., , , , , , , , ,
Upheavals of Thought,
The Fragility of Goodness: Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy,
O’Connell, W. E.,
O’Flaherty, James C., , , , , , ,
Oberman, Heiko,
Oden, Thomas, , , , , , , ,
Old Testament, ,
Olesen, Tonny Aagaard, , , , , ,
Olsen, Regine (Kierkegaard’s fiancée),
Origen,
Orwoll, L.,
Otani, Masaru, ,
Oxford English Dictionary “Enthusiasm,”
Paganism, ,
Pagels, Elaine,
Painting, ,
Parfait, Nicole,
Parkin, John, ,
Parodic,
Parody, , , , , , ,
Pascal, Blaise, , , , , , , , , ,
Provincial Letters,
Passmore, John,
The Perfectibility of Man,
Passy, Isaak,
Pattison, George, , ,
Paul, St., , , , , , , , , , –,
Peace of mind, , , , , , . See also tranquility, serenity
Perkins, Robert L., , , , , ,
Perlmutter, M.,
Philonenko, Alexis,
Piaget, Jean,
Pico de la Mirandola, Giovanni,
Pinkus, Karen,
Plato, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , –, ,
Ion, ,
Laws,
Meno,
Phaedo,
Phaedrus, , , , ,
Philebus, , , , , , , ,
Protagoras,
Republic, , ,
Sophist,
Symposium, , , , ,
Theaetetus, ,
Platonism,
Cambridge Platonism,
Plessner, Helmut,
Plutarch, , ,
Moralia, ,
Poet, , , , , , , , , ,
Poetic, , , , , , , , , ,
Ars poetica (Horace),
Poetic genres,
Poetics (Aristotle),
Poetry, , , , –, , , , ,
iambic poetry,
Pojman, Louis P., , , , , , , , , , ,
Polac, Michael,
Polhemus, Robert M.,
Pollio, Howard R., ,
Poole, Roger, , , , , , , , ,
Pope, Alexander, ,
Popkin, Richard H., ,
Popper, Karl R., , ,
Conjectures and Refutations,
The Logic of Scientific Discovery,
The Myth of the Framework,
The Open Society and Its Enemies,
The Poverty of Historicism,
Potkay, Adam, ,
The Story of Joy,
Preisendanz, Wolfgang, ,
Preston, William,
Prince, Michael, , , , , ,
Protestant, , , , , , ,
Protestantism, ,
Lutheran, , , ,
Prufer, Thomas,
Pyper, Hugh S.,
Pyrrho, ,
Pyrrhonists, , ,
Pyrrhonism, , , , ,
Pythagoras,
the laughterless (agelastos),
Quero, Dominique,
Quinn, Phillip L.,
Quintilian,
Racamier, Paul-Claude,
Radday, Y. T.,
Rahner, Hugo,
Rajchman, John,
Ramsay, Allan, , , ,
Rapp, Albert,
Raskin, Victor,
Redwood, John,
Redeemed, ,
Redemption, , , , , , , –. See also release, salvation
Redemptive,
Reid, Thomas, , ,
Reines, H. W.,
Release, , , , , , , , . See also freedom, redemption, salvation
release and relief theories of humor , , ,
Resnick, I. M.,
Richter, Jean Paul. See Jean Paul Ricoeur, Paul, ,
Rimbaud, Arthur, Season in Hell,
Ringleben, Paul, ,
Ridicule, –. See also Shaftesbury, Hamann, Kierkegaard
cognitive integration resolution, –
new identity resolution, –
Robertson, John M., , , , , , ,
Robinson Crusoe,
Robinson, James M.,
Robinson, Vera, ,
Roche, Mark William,
Roeckelein, Jon, , , ,
Roman philosophers and schools, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
Ronell, Avital, , , ,
Rosenthal, F.,
Rosset, Clément, , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
Rowan, John,
Ruch, Willibald, , ,
Rudd, Anthony, ,
Russell Bertrand,
The Conquest of Happiness,
“A Free Man’s Worship,”
Rycroft, Charles,
Critical Dictionary of Psychoanalysis,
Ryle, Gilbert,
Sales, Francois de,
Sallis, John,
Salvation, , , , , , , , , , , , , –. See also redemption, release
Sanders, Barry, ,
Sands, Kathleen M., , –
Sankara,
Santayana, George, , , , , , , , , , , ,
Sarazin, Bernard,
Sartre, Jean-Paul, , , , ,
Nausea,
No Exit,
Satire, , , , , , –, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , . See also satiric, satirical, satirist
Satiric, satirical, , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
Satirist, , , , , , . See also satiric, satirical, satire
Scorn, , , , , , , , , , , , . See also contempt, mockery
scornful, , ,
Schär, Hans,
Scheler, Max,
Schellenberg, J. L.,
Schelling, Friedrich, , ,
Schiller, Friedrich, ,
Schleiermacher, Frierich, ,
Vertraute briefe uber die Lucinde,
Schleifer, Ronald, ,
Scholem, Gershom,
Schopenhauer, Arthur, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
The World as Will and Representation,
Scipio Aemilianus,
Scott, Nathan A. Jr., ,
Scribe, Augustin Eugen,
Scruton, Roger,
Secular, secularity, secularize, , , , , , , , ,
Segal, David, ,
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, , , ,
Serenity, , , , , , .
See also tranquility, peace of mind
Sewall, Richard B., , , , , , ,
Sextus, Empiricus, ,
Shakespeare, , ,
Hamlet,
Macbeth,
Shaftesbury, first Earl of, , ,
Shaftesbury, third Earl of, –, –, , –, , , , , , , –, , , ––, , , , ,
beauty, –
enthusiasm, –
good humor, –
the good life, –
humor and wit, –
and enthusiasm, –
in inner dialogue, –
in philosophic conversation, –
in philosophic writing, –
humor, good humor, ridicule and wit
in the good life, –
controversy over ridicule and truth, –
humor as effective criticism, –
humor and good humor and truth, –
humor as the mark of rationality, –
influence on Hamann and Kierkegaard, , –, , , ,
and Kierkegaard, –, , , , –, –, , , –,
ridicule, –
as applied, –
the test of truth, –
the tragic and the comic, –
virtue, –
Shapiro, Gary,
Sharfstein, Ben-Ami,
Shavit, Yehuda,
Shein, Noa,
Sher, Richard B., ,
Shestov, Lev, ,
Shlein, Yair,
Shmuëli, Adi, , , ,
Shultz, T.,
Siegel, L.,
Simon, Alfred,
Simon, Richard Keller, , , , , , , , , , , ,
Sinnott-Armstrong, Walter,
Skepticism, skeptical, , , , , , , , ,
Pyrrhonian, , , . See also
Pyrrho, Pyrrhonian, Pyrrhonists, Pyrrhonism
Söderquist, Brian K.,
Smith, Adam, ,
Smith, Huston, , ,
Smith, John,
Smith, Richard H.,
Smith, Ronald Gregor, , , ,
Smyth, John Vignaux, , ,
Socrates, , , , , , , ,
and Christianity,
Cicero’s model,
the comical philosopher, ,
as comic-tragic, –,
Design of a Socratick History (Shaftesbury), , , –
and the Early Church,
followers of, ,
as a forerunner of Christ, ,
Hamann’s model, , –
as humorist, ,
Ironia familiaris (habitual irony of),
irony of, , , –, –
as jestful and earnest, ,
and Kierkegaard,
Kierkegaard’s model, –, , ,
as laughing in the afterlife,
On the Concept of Irony, with Constant References to Socrates (Kierkegaard), –,
as religious, ,
and self-knowledge,
and tragedy and comedy,
Shaftesbury’s model, , , , , , ,
Socrates’ Memoirs (Hamann), ,
and St. Paul,
as a wise fool,
Xenophonic, , ,
Sokolov, Aleksandr Nokolavich,
Solger, Karl W. F., ,
Solomon, Robert C., , , , ,
Sophocles,
Sorabji, Richard, ,
Sotion,
on laughing and crying as alternatives to anger, ,
Sparks, Simon,
Sparling, Robert Alan, ,
The Spectator,
Speier, Hans,
Spencer, Herbert, , ,
Spinoza, Benedict, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
Ethics, ,
Political Treatise,
Short Treatise on God, Man, and His Well-Being,
Spinozism,
Sprigge, T. L. S.,
Stack, George J.,
Steiner, George, ,
The Death of Tragedy,
Stewart, Jon, , ,
Kierkegaard’s Relations to Hegel Reconsidered,
Sterne, Laurence,
Tristram Shandy,
Stoics, the, , , , , , , , –, , , , , , ,
Strayer, J.,
Stobaeus, ,
Strabo, Caesar, , ,
Strawser, Michael, ,
Suls, M. Jerry,
Swift, Jonathan, ,
Tale of a Tub,
Syrkin, Alexander,
Szondi, Peter, , , ,
Taoism, , ,
The Tatler,
Tave, Stewart, , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
Taylor, Charles, , , ,
Taylor, Mark, , , , , , , , , ,
Telfer, Elizabeth,
Terence,
Tertullian, ,
Tessler, Alicia,
Thales,
the ridiculous philosopher, ,
Thatamanil, John J.,
Theophrastus, , , ,
Thiele, Leslie Paul, ,
Thompson, Josiah, , ,
Thorild, Thomas,
Thulstrup, Marie Mikulová, , ,
Thulstrup, Niels, , ,
Tieck, Ludwig,
Tiffany, Esther,
Tiliotson, John (archbishop of Canterbury), –
Timon of Phlius, ,
Tindal, Matthew,
Tragedy, , , , , , , , , –, , , , , , , –, , –, , , –, –, –, , , , , , , , , ,
and comedy, –,
Tranquility, , , , , , , . See also serenity, peace of mind
Trickster,
Toland, John, , ,
Tocqueville,
Tucker, Abraham, ,
Tucker, Susie I.,
Unamuno, Miguel de, , , , ,
The Tragic Sense of Life, ,
Unger, Rudof, ,
Valerio, Paola, ,
Veatch, Thomas C.,
Vedas, the,
Ventis, W. Larry, ,
Verdon, Jean, ,
Virshow, Rudolf
Cellularpathologie,
Vlastos, Gregory,
Voegelin, Eric,
Vogt, Katja Maria,
Voitle, Robert, ,
Volkelt, Johannes Immanuel, ,
Voltaire, François, , , , , , , , ,
Candide,
Epitre sur la calomnie,
Henriade,
Jean qui rit, Jean qui pleure,
on laughter,
Mémoire sur la satire,
Philosophical Dictionary,
Poème sur le désastre de Lisbonne,
The Prodigal,
Zadig,
Vygotsky, Lev,
Wagner, Richard, ,
Art and Revolution,
Tristan and Isolde,
Walsh, Sylvia, , , , , , , , , , ,
Warburton, William,
on ridicule as the test of truth,
Ward, Keith,
Watkin, Julia, ,
Webster’s Dictionary of Synomyms and Antonyms
“Wit,”
Webster’s New World Dictionary
“Ridicule,”
Weil, Eric,
Weitz, Morris,
Welsford, Enid,
Weston, Michael, ,
Westphal, Merold, , , ,
Whichcote, Benjamin, , , ,
Wieger, Leon,
Wieland, Christoph Martin, , ,
Wielenberg, Erik,
Willenford, William,
Willey, Basil, , , , ,
Williams, Bernard, , ,
Wills, Thomas A.,
Wilson, Scott,
Winnicot, D. W., ,
Winterset (Anderson),
Wisdom, wise, , , , , , , , , , , –, , , –, , , , –, , , , , , , , ,
Wispé, L.,
Witt, Mary Ann Frese,
Wittgenstein, Ludwig, ,
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus,
Wolf, Richard B., , , , ,
Wollaston, William, ,
Wong, D.,
Wood, P. B.,
Wood, Ralph C., –
Woodworth,
Woronoff, Jon,
Xenophanes, ,
Xenophon, , , , , , , , , ,
Xenophonic Socrates, , , ,
Yeats, William Butler,
Yovel, Yirmiyahu,
Yovetich, N.,
Zen Buddhism,
Ziolkowski, Eric,
Zupančič, Alenka,