Publications

Publication details [#63858]

Marra, Jennifer. 2018. Make comedy matter: Ernst Cassirer on the politics and morality of humor. The European Journal of Humour Research 6 (1) : 162–171.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

comedy | humor | morality | philosophy | political language

Place, Publisher

The European Journal of Humour Research

Annotation

This study assays a part of Ernst Cassirer's work, broadly neglected in scholarship, viz. his grasp of the politics and morality of humour, enabling to grasp humour's power in political discourse and the liability of that power.