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Article
Philosophical Presentation and the Implicitly Humorous Structure of Philosophy
Humanities Faculty Research
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
10-15-2021
Abstract
Philosophy often at least implicitly includes and depends on a logical structure which is also that of jokes. This is the case when philosophy involves questioning or establishing concepts in their own right, and when it involves the kinds of metaphysics which ask about reality and the world as a wholeor as such. Taking this humour-like structure into account in presenting philosophy helps, among otherthings, to lay open part of the character of philosophy itself, to underscore the radical self-perspective thatis constitutive of philosophy, and to contextualise the often confusing experience of coming to grips with anunfamiliar philosophical framework.
Citation Information
“Philosophical Presentation and the Implicitly Humorous Structure of Philosophy,” Human Affairs (2021) 31.4: 409-419: https://doi.org/10.1515/humaff-2021-0035.
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