Author: Delia Casadei
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520391330
Category : Laughter
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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"Risible offers an alternative re-telling of the intellectual, technological, and sonic history of laughter, a phenomenon that cannot be accounted for through its causes (such as theories of comedy). Instead, Delia Casadei argues, laughter is a technique of the human body, knowable by its repetitive, clipped, and proliferating sound and its enduring links to the capacity for language and reproduction. The long-forgotten history of laughter--which reaches back to ancient Greece--re-emerges with explosive force in the late nineteenth century thanks to the binding of laughter to sound-reproduction technology. This alternative genealogy of laughter as human technique and sound technology is thrown into stark relief by the tension between the ownership and reproduction of the black voice in phonograph records, in metaphors of contagion and laughter in the early global market of phonographic laughing songs, and in the strange commodity of pre-recorded laughtracks. As such, laughter becomes a means of working out the very category of sound (not-quite-human, unintelligible, reproductive and reproducible, contagious) across the twentieth century"--
Author: Lord Henry Home Kames
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Category : Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 520
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Author: Lord Henry Home Kames
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Category : Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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Author: James Augustus Henry Murray
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 1030
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Languages : en
Pages : 1142
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Author: Noah Webster
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Languages : en
Pages : 1032
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Author: Francis Bowen
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Category : Logic
Languages : en
Pages : 484
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Author: Allan T. Bäck
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004451226
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 567
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On Reduplication is a study of the logical properties of reduplicative propositions, that is, of propositions having qualifications, like 'Christ qua God is a creature' and 'being qua being is the subject of metaphysics'. The focus is on what ways qualifications change the truth value and the inference patterns of simple, categorical propositions. The central class of reduplications is that in which the qualifications are introduced by a qua connective like 'qua', 'insofar as', 'under the concept of', or 'in virtue of the fact that'. Reduplicative propositions occur frequently and importantly in both traditional and contemporary philosophical works, but there has been little modern analysis of them. This study presents, compares and analyzes the different theories of reduplication that have arisen in Western philosophy. Texts are presented and explicated, and their significance is weighed relative to modern logical theory. Throughout this study, some important applications of theories of reduplication are noted, such as Leibniz's qualification of the principle of the Identity of Indiscernibles, Ockham's reduction of abstract entities, and Aquinas's view on the Incarnation.
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Category : Atlases
Languages : en
Pages : 864
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Author: 顏惠慶
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 1646
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