Laughter and Ridicule: Towards a Social Critique of Humour by Michael Billig
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Overview: `From Thomas Hobbes’ fear of the power of laughter to the compulsory, packaged “fun” of the contemporary mass media, Billig takes the reader on a stimulating tour of the strange world of humour. Both a significant work of scholarship and a novel contribution to the understanding of the humourous, this is a seriously engaging book’ – David Inglis, University of Aberdeen
This delightful book tackles the prevailing assumption that laughter and humour are inherently good. In developing a critique of humour the author proposes a social theory that places humour in the form of ridicule as central to social life. Billig argues that all cultures use ridicule as a disciplinary means to uphold norms of conduct and conventions of meaning.
Genre: Non-Fiction > History
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