{"product_id":"ethics-in-comedy-9781476676418","title":"Ethics in Comedy","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e   All humans laugh. However, there is little agreement about what is appropriate to laugh at. While laughter can unite people by showing how they share values and perspectives, it also has the power to separate and divide. Humor that crosses the line can make people feel excluded and humiliated. This collection of new essays addresses possible ways that moral and ethical lines can be drawn around humor and laughter. What would a Kantian approach to humor look like? Do games create a safe space for profanity and offense? Contributors to this volume work to establish and explain guidelines for thinking about the moral questions that arise when humor and laughter intersect with medicine, gender, race, and politics. Drawing from the work of stand-up comedians, television shows, and ethicists, this volume asserts that we are never just joking.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\tvii\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction (Steven A. Benko)\t1\u003cbr\u003ePart One: Laughter, Ethicists and Ethics\u003cbr\u003eToward an Objective Ethic of Humor (Jennifer Marra)\t17\u003cbr\u003eClosing the Comic Loophole: Reframing the Aesthetics \u003cbr\u003eand Ethics of Comedy (Shouta Brown)\t28\u003cbr\u003eWhat Is Kant's Theory of Humor? (Robert R. Clewis)\t40\u003cbr\u003eThe Justice of the Funny (Liz Sills)\t57\u003cbr\u003eOtherwise Than Laughter: Levinas and an Ethics of Laughter (Steven A. Benko)\t71\u003cbr\u003ePart Two: Laughter, Gender and Race Minority Report: Joking About the Other (Rebecca Krefting)\t87\u003cbr\u003eThat's Way Too Aggressive a Word: Aziz Ansari, Comedy of Incongruity and Affectively Charged Feminism (Steven A. Benko and Eleanor Jones)\t99\u003cbr\u003eThe Boondocks and the Ethics of Black Comic Rage (Christophe D. Ringer\t) 113\u003cbr\u003eRelief and Revelation: The Ethics of Comedy in the #MeToo Era Through Dave Chappelle's The Bird Revelation (Olivia Moorer)\t126\u003cbr\u003ePart Three: Laughter and Late Night Blowing Off Steam: Freud, Smut and Samantha Bee's Political ­Comedy (Erica A. Holberg)\t141\u003cbr\u003eThe Vices and Virtues of David Letterman (Cindy Muenchrath Spady)\t154\u003cbr\u003eThe Complex Ethics of Jimmy Kimmel as Confidence Man \u003cbr\u003eand Scientific Communicator (Shelly A. Galliah)\t167\u003cbr\u003ePart Four: Laughter and Ridicule Ethical Features of Derogatory Humor in Medical Settings (Ralph H. Didlake and Caroline E. Compretta)\t185\u003cbr\u003eLaughter, Bodily Pain and Ethics in YouTube Fail Videos (Jonathan Peter Wright)\t197\u003cbr\u003eLaughing with \"Horrible\" People: Reaffirming Ethical Boundaries Through Laughter (Nicole Graham)\t210\u003cbr\u003eThe Caring Practical Joke (David K. McGraw)\t223\u003cbr\u003e\"Laughter is not our medicine\": Hannah Gadsby's Nanette \u003cbr\u003eand the Balm of Comedy (Grant Moss)\t232\u003cbr\u003eAbout the Contributors\t245\u003cbr\u003eIndex\t249","brand":"McFarland \u0026 Co Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040453034327,"sku":"9781476676418","price":27.54,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781476676418.jpg?v=1750946800","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/ethics-in-comedy-9781476676418","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}