The future of post-human humor : a preface to a new theory of joking and laughing

Content: \"\"CONTENTS\"\"
 \"\"Part One: Introduction\"\"
 \"\"Part Two: Joking\"\"
 \"\"Part Three: Laughing\"\"
 \"\"Part Four: Conclusion\"\"
 \"\"TABLES\"\"
 \"\"FOREWORD\"\"
 \"\"ACKNOWLEDGMENTS\"\"
 \"\"ABBREVIATIONS\"\"
 \"\"PART ONE • Introduction\"\"
 \"\"CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION � THE FUN OF HUMOR\"\"
 \"\"Humor to Be, or ot to Be, a Frog Can\"\"
 \"\"Humor in Relation to Joking and Laughing\"\"
 \"\"Joking\"\"
 \"\"Laughing\"\"
 \"\"The Theoretical Debate\"\"
 \"\"The Mental Argument\"\"
 \"\"The Natural Argument\"\"
 \"\"The Societal Argument\"\"
 \"\"The Cultural Argument\"\"
 \"\"The Metamorphic Argument\"\"
 \"\"The Metamorphic Theory of Humor\"\" \"\"Theory and Meta-Theory\"\"\"\"The Classification of Theory and Meta-Theory\"\"
 \"\"A Unified Theory of Everything\"\"
 \"\"The Logic of Existential Dialectics\"\"
 \"\"The Conception of Existential Dialectics (or Its Ontics)\"\"
 \"\"The Syntax of Existential Dialectics (or Its Ontomethodology and Ontologic)\"\"
 \"\"The Semantics of Existential Dialectics (or Its Ontosemantics)\"\"
 \"\"The Pragmatics of Existential Dialectics (or Its Ontopragmatics)\"\"
 \"\"Sophisticated Methodological Holism\"\"
 \"\"Chapter Outline\"\"
 \"\"Some Clarifications\"\"
 \"\"In Conversation with My Previous Books\"\"
 \"\"Case Studies and Examples\"\" \"\"Detailed Analysis versus Overall Synthesis\"\"\"\"Two Distinctive Features of Using Quotations\"\"
 \"\"The Use of Neologisms\"\"
 \"\"PART TWO • Joking\"\"
 \"\"CHAPTER 2. JOKING AND ITS DOUBLE FACES\"\"
 \"\"The Benignity of Joking\"\"
 \"\"Joking and the Mind\"\"
 \"\"Joking, the Mind, and the Psychology of Jokes\"\"
 \"\"Joking, Black Comedy, and the Question about Human Nature\"\"
 \"\"Joking and Nature\"\"
 \"\"Joking, IFF, and the Controversy about Evolution\"\"
 \"\"Joking and Society\"\"
 \"\"Joking, and the Politics of Satire\"\"
 \"\"Joking, Race/Ethnic Humor, and the Power Equation\"\"
 \"\"Joking and Culture\"\" \"\"Joking, Flatulence Humor, and the Culture of Shifting Blame\"\"\"\"The Techniques of Joking, and the Cultural Factor\"\"
 \"\"The Malignity of Joking\"\"
 \"\"PART THREE • Laughing\"\"
 \"\"CHAPTER 3. LAUGHING AND ITS DUAL FACETS\"\"
 \"\"The Joy of Laughing\"\"
 \"\"Laughing and the Mind\"\"
 \"\"Laughing, Health, and the Dark Sides\"\"
 \"\"Laughing, Therapy, and the Debate in Gelotology\"\"
 \"\"Laughing and Nature\"\"
 \"\"Laughing, Animals, and the Contentious Comparison\"\"
 \"\"Laughing, Animals, and the Evolutionary Claim\"\"
 \"\"Laughing and Society\"\"
 \"\"Laughing, and the Dispute about Social Functions\"\" \"\"Laughing and Culture\"\"\"\"Laughing, Writers, and the Role of Intellectual Culture\"\"
 \"\"Laughing, Death, and the Coverage in Popular Culture\"\"
 \"\"The Sorrow of Laughing\"\"
 \"\"PART FOUR • Conclusion\"\"
 \"\"CHAPTER 4. CONCLUSION � THE FUTURE OF HUMOR\"\"
 \"\"Beyond Joking and Laughing\"\"
 \"\"1st Thesis: The Absoluteness-Relativeness Principle\"\"
 \"\"2nd Thesis: The Predictability-Unpredictability Principle\"\"
 \"\"3rd Thesis: The Explicability-Inexplicability Principle\"\"
 \"\"4th Thesis: The Preciseness-Vagueness Principle\"\"
 \"\"5th Thesis: The Simpleness-Complicatedness Principle\"\"