John Marmysz 
Laughing at Nothing [PDF ebook] 
Humor as a Response to Nihilism

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Explores the concept of nihilism and argues that it need not imply despair, but can be responded to positively.

Disputing the common misconception that nihilism is wholly negative and necessarily damaging to the human spirit, John Marmysz offers a clear and complete definition to argue that it is compatible, and indeed preferably responded to, with an attitude of good humor. He carefully scrutinizes the phenomenon of nihilism as it appears in the works, lives, and actions of key figures in the history of philosophy, literature, politics, and theology, including Nietzsche, Heidegger, Camus, and Mishima. While suggesting that there ultimately is no solution to the problem of nihilism, Marmysz proposes a way of utilizing the anxiety and despair that is associated with the problem as a spur toward liveliness, activity, and the celebration of life.

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Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Problem of Nihilism

PART I: Scrutinizing Nihilism

1. German and Russian Nihilism

German Nihilism

Russian Nihilism

2. Nietzschean Nihilism


The Christian, the Anarchist, and Socrates

Apollo and Dionysus

Healthy Culture and the Well-Ordered Society

Ascent, Decline, and the Eternal Return of the Same

Heidegger and Nietzsche

3. World-War and Postwar Nihilism


The National Socialists

Camus and the Existentialists

Yukio Mishima and Asian Nihilism

Nihilism in America

4. Nihilistic Incongruity


The Descriptive, Normative, and Fatalistic Premises of Nihilism

The Historical Complication

Pyrrho, Stirner, Rorty, and Skeptical Pragmatism

PART II: Decline, Ascent, and Humor

5. Decline, Decay, and Falling Away
6. Ambition, Aspiration, and Ascent
7. Humor and Incongruity


Jokes

Comedy

Humor


Conclusion: Humor as a Response to Nihilism

Postscript
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Tentang Penulis

John Marmysz teaches Philosophy at Corning Community College.

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