
Publication details
Publisher: Springer
Place: Berlin
Year: 2017
Pages: 15-231
Series: Contributions to Phenomenology
ISBN (Undefined): 9783319621890
ISBN (eBook): 9783319621906
Full citation:
, Religion and humor as emancipating provinces of meaning, Berlin, Springer, 2017


Religion and humor as emancipating provinces of meaning
pp. 15-231
Contributions to Phenomenology | 91Springer
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:
, Religion and humor as emancipating provinces of meaning, Berlin, Springer, 2017