Isn’t that Clever
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Author_Steven Gimbel
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cleverness
Cleverness Account
Cognitive Virtue
comedic aesthetics
Comedy Club
comedy ethics
conspicuousness
Conversational Power
dirty jokes
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ethnic humor analysis
ethnic jokes
gags
H.P. Grice
heckling
Humor Act
Identity Politics Position
Illocutionary Goal
Improv Comedy
Incongruity Theory
intellectual playfulness
J.L. Austin
John Morreall
joke ethics
Joke Teller
jokes
Knock Knock Joke
locutionary goal
Moral Permissibility
Non-bona Fide Communication
non-Duchenne Laughter
Occasional Community
Perlocutionary Force
Perlocutionary Goal
philosophy of comedy
philosophy of humor
philosophy of humor ethics and aesthetics
philosophy of language
philosophy of laughter
Play Frame
play theory
Playful Cleverness
Punch Line
Pure Joke
Rape Joke
release theory
Script Opposition
social norms in humor
stand-up comedy
stereotypes
Steven Gimbel
superiority theory
Tendentious Jokes
Verbal Jokes
Product details
- ISBN 9781138082151
- Weight: 430g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 30 Jun 2017
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Isn’t That Clever provides a new account of the nature of humor – the cleverness account – according to which humor is intentional conspicuous acts of playful cleverness. By defining humor in this way, answers can be found to longstanding questions about humor ethics (Are there jokes that are wrong to tell? Are there jokes that can only be told by certain people?) and humor aesthetics (What makes for a good joke? Is humor subjective?). In addition to humor in general, Isn’t That Clever asks questions about comedy as an art form such as whether there are limits to what can be said in dealing with a heckler and how do we determine whether one comedian has stolen jokes from another.
Steven Gimbel is Professor of Philosophy at Gettysburg College, USA. His paper "Heckler Ethics" received the Joseph Ellin Memorial Prize for best paper given at the seventh annual meeting of the Lighthearted Philosophers’ Society. He was also an amateur stand-up comedian for several years, regularly performing at comedy clubs around the Baltimore/Washington D.C. area.
