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Language: en
Pages: 266
Pages: 266
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-11-14 - Publisher: State University of New York Press
Plato was described as a boor and it was said that he never laughed out loud. Yet his dialogues abound with puns, jokes, and humor. Sonja Madeleine Tanner argue
Language: en
Pages: 305
Pages: 305
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
"Ancient philosophers were very interested in the themes of laughter, humor and comedy. They theorized about laughter and its causes, moralized about the approp
Language: en
Pages: 224
Pages: 224
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-06-24 - Publisher: Penguin
This New York Times bestseller is the hilarious philosophy course everyone wishes they’d had in school. Outrageously funny, Plato and a Platypus Walk into a B
Language: en
Pages: 298
Pages: 298
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-09-12 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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