Preaching, playing and a lunatic´s assessment

Prof Giorgio Baruchello's sixth volume of Collected Philosophical Essays for Canada's Northwest Passage Books is now available: Thinking and Laughing.

The book comprises eleven revised works on humour and humour-related topics, plus three new humorous additions. The book is divided in four parts: (1) Teaching (four short works on humour in and around the university classroom); (2) Splitting (four stately essays on, respectively, so-called "true humour," the 2015 Charlie Hebdo terrorist attack, an application of Carlo M. Cipolla's seminal studies of human stupidity, and the visual rhetoric of Monty Python's Flying Circus); (3) Preaching (two satirical tirades on, respectively, the climate crisis and contemporary culture wars); (4) Playing (a philosophical dictionary à la Flavio Baroncelli; a comprehensive bestiary of Western academia; a newly-discovered canto by Dante himself; and a lunatic's assessment of Wittgenstein as a humourist).

Here you can find the book.