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by Jim Holt

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In the fine tradition of "On Bullshit" comes this outrageous, uproarious compendium that traces the evolution of the joke, from the stand-up comics of ancient Athens to the comedy-club Seinfelds of today.

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From the best-selling author of Why Does the World Exist? comes this outrageous, uproarious compendium of absurdity, filth, racy paradox, and gratuitous offensiveness--just the kind of mature philosophical reflection readers have come to expect from the ever-entertaining Jim Holt. Indeed, Stop Me If You've
Heard This is the first book to trace the evolution of the joke all the way from the standup comics of ancient Athens to the comedy-club Seinfelds of today. After exploring humor's history in Part One, Holt delves into philosophy in Part Two: Wall Street jokes; jokes about rednecks and atheists, bulimics and politicians; jokes you missed if you didn't go to a Catholic girls' school; jokes about logic and existence itself . . . all became fodder for the grand theories of Aristotle, Kant, Freud, and Wittgenstein in this heady mix of the high and low, of the ribald and profound, from America's most beloved philosophical pundit.

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  • Title Stop Me If You've Heard This: A History and Philosophy of Jokes
  • Author Jim Holt
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 160
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Liveright Publishing Corporation
  • Publication date 2013-10
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780871407207 / 0871407205
  • Weight 0.22 lbs (0.10 kg)
  • Dimensions 6.5 x 4.5 x 0.5 in (16.51 x 11.43 x 1.27 cm)
  • Category Humor
  • Library of Congress subjects Wit and humor - History and criticism
  • Dewey Decimal Code 809.7
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