Introduction

taking laughter seriously in nineteenth-century philosophy

Lydia Moland

1-13

Reconciling laughter

Hegel on comedy and humor

Lydia Moland

15-31

It's tragic, but that's great

K. W. F. Solger and humor as the key to metaphysics

Diego Bubbio

33-49

Jean Paul's lunacy, or humor as trans-critique

William Coker

51-71

Caricature, philosophy and the "aesthetics of the ugly"

some questions for Rosenkranz

Allen Speight

73-87

Arthur Schopenhauer

humor and the pitiable human condition

Robert Wicks

89-104

Humor as redemption in the pessimistic philosophy of Julius Bahnsen

Frederick Beiser

105-114

"What time is it? . . . . eternity"

Kierkegaard's Socratic use of Hegel's insights on romantic humor

Marcia C. Robinson

115-136

Jest as humility

Kierkegaard and the limits of earnestness

John Lippitt

137-151

The divine hanswurst

Nietzsche on laughter and comedy

Matthew J. Meyer

153-173

Life's joke

Bergson, comedy, and the meaning of laughter

Russell Ford

175-193