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Publisher: Springer

Place: Berlin

Year: 2017

Pages: 15-231

Series: Contributions to Phenomenology

ISBN (Undefined): 9783319621890

ISBN (eBook): 9783319621906

Full citation:

Michael Barber, Religion and humor as emancipating provinces of meaning, Berlin, Springer, 2017

Religion and humor as emancipating provinces of meaning

Michael Barber

pp. 15-231

Contributions to Phenomenology | 91

Springer

2017

Abstract

​This book illustrates how non-pragmatic finite provinces of meaning emancipate one from pragmatic everyday pressures. Barber portrays everyday life originally, as including the interplay between intrinsic and imposed relevances, the unavoidable pursuit of pragmatic mastery, and the resulting tensions non-pragmatic provinces can relieve. But individuals and groups also inevitably resort to meta-level strategies of hyper-mastery to protect set ways of satisfying lower-level relevances—strategies that easily augment individual anxiety and social pathologies.

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Publication details

Publisher: Springer

Place: Berlin

Year: 2017

Pages: 15-231

Series: Contributions to Phenomenology

ISBN (Undefined): 9783319621890

ISBN (eBook): 9783319621906

Full citation:

Michael Barber, Religion and humor as emancipating provinces of meaning, Berlin, Springer, 2017