The Philosophy of Humour Paul McDonald:Paperback brewing and drinking it -

brewing and drinking it - from the pioneers of 1830's to the 1970's boom

originally published in 1922

The original footnotes are preserved along with the Bible references

although seldom mentioned in popular accounts

and she wrote it in 2 weeks

The Philosophy of Humour Paul McDonald:Paperback brewing and drinking it -Comic novelist and critic Paul McDonald explores the philosophy of humour in a book that will appeal to philosophers and creative writers alike. One aim of this book is to assess theories of humour and laughter. It concentrates mainly on philosophical approaches to humour including those of Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Descartes, Hobbes, Bergson, Kant, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Freud and Bakhtin, but also explores such fields as cultural studies,