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- Title: Tradition As Gelotopoesis: An Essay on the Hermeneutics of Laughter in Martin Heidegger (Report)
- Author : Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy
- Release Date : January 01, 2011
- Genre: Religion & Spirituality,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 258 KB
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INTRODUCTION: THE QUESTION OF LAUGHTER Philosophers have often been thought as thinkers bereft of laughter and cheerfulness. The idea that a lot of people, including a good numbers of philosophers, have is that philosophers represent an ascetic class of people who advance a serious discipline of the most difficult and profound issues. One might assume that Martin Heidegger is such a grave figure. Hans-Georg Gadamer, Heidegger's closest and most trusted student, testifies the following: