Image for The Moral Psychology of Amusement

The Moral Psychology of Amusement

Part of the Moral Psychology of the Emotions series
See all formats and editions

Amusement is an emotion with power. It has the power to make us laugh, but it can also have a power over us (for good or for ill) to control our attention or memory.

Amusement can empower our resistance to oppression, or it can itself become an oppressive force.

Our amusement can make others feel shame. Amusement even has the power to affect (and be affected by) out moral assessment of others. This volume offers twelve essays from leading and emerging scholars that explore the moral quagmire that is the emotion of amusement.

It is a collection that considers the moral psychology of amusement from a range of perspectives, going as far back as ancient Chinese and Greek philosophy up to the most current psychological and sociological findings.

Read More
Special order line: only available to educational & business accounts. Sign In
£24.00 Save 20.00%
RRP £30.00
Product Details
Rowman & Littlefield
1538161648 / 9781538161647
Paperback / softback
179
15/09/2023
United States
English
160 pages : illustrations (black and white)
23 cm