dc.contributor.author | Hietalahti, Jarno | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-07T08:07:46Z | |
dc.date.available | 2023-11-07T08:07:46Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2021 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Hietalahti, J. (2021). An Answer to a Question that Cannot Be Answered : A Pragmatist Approach to Viktor Frankl’s and Primo Levi’s Theoretical Perspectives on Humor. <i>The Philosophy of Humor Yearbook</i>, <i>2</i>(1), 1-26. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1515/phhumyb-2021-001" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1515/phhumyb-2021-001</a> | |
dc.identifier.other | CONVID_103501119 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/91789 | |
dc.description.abstract | This article offers a pragmatist approach to concentration camp humor, in particular, to Viktor Frankl’s and Primo Levi’s conceptualizations of humor. They both show how humor does not vanish even in the worst imaginable circumstances. Despite this similarity, it will be argued that their intellectual positions on humor differ significantly. The main difference between the two authors is that according to Frankl, humor is elevating in the middle of suffering, and according to Levi, humor expresses the absurdity of the idea of concentration camps, but this is not necessarily a noble reaction. Through a critical synthesis based on pragmatist philosophy, it will be claimed that humor in concentration camps expresses the human condition in the entirely twisted situation. This phenomenon cannot be understood without considering forms of life, how drastic the changes from the past were, and what people expected from the future, if anything. | en |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH | |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | The Philosophy of Humor Yearbook | |
dc.rights | In Copyright | |
dc.subject.other | Frankl, Viktor | |
dc.subject.other | Levi, Primo | |
dc.subject.other | concentration camp humor | |
dc.subject.other | Viktor Frankl | |
dc.subject.other | Primo Levi | |
dc.subject.other | pragmatism | |
dc.subject.other | humanistic philosophy | |
dc.title | An Answer to a Question that Cannot Be Answered : A Pragmatist Approach to Viktor Frankl’s and Primo Levi’s Theoretical Perspectives on Humor | |
dc.type | article | |
dc.identifier.urn | URN:NBN:fi:jyu-202311077823 | |
dc.contributor.laitos | Yhteiskuntatieteiden ja filosofian laitos | fi |
dc.contributor.laitos | Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy | en |
dc.contributor.oppiaine | Filosofia | fi |
dc.contributor.oppiaine | Philosophy | en |
dc.type.uri | http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle | |
dc.type.coar | http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_2df8fbb1 | |
dc.description.reviewstatus | peerReviewed | |
dc.format.pagerange | 1-26 | |
dc.relation.issn | 2698-7171 | |
dc.relation.numberinseries | 1 | |
dc.relation.volume | 2 | |
dc.type.version | publishedVersion | |
dc.rights.copyright | © 2021 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin/Boston | |
dc.rights.accesslevel | openAccess | fi |
dc.subject.yso | absurdi | |
dc.subject.yso | musta huumori | |
dc.subject.yso | filosofia | |
dc.subject.yso | huumori | |
dc.subject.yso | keskitysleirit | |
dc.subject.yso | ihmisyys | |
dc.subject.yso | pragmatismi | |
dc.subject.yso | humanismi | |
dc.format.content | fulltext | |
jyx.subject.uri | http://www.yso.fi/onto/yso/p16536 | |
jyx.subject.uri | http://www.yso.fi/onto/yso/p12680 | |
jyx.subject.uri | http://www.yso.fi/onto/yso/p1056 | |
jyx.subject.uri | http://www.yso.fi/onto/yso/p9239 | |
jyx.subject.uri | http://www.yso.fi/onto/yso/p142 | |
jyx.subject.uri | http://www.yso.fi/onto/yso/p14396 | |
jyx.subject.uri | http://www.yso.fi/onto/yso/p5766 | |
jyx.subject.uri | http://www.yso.fi/onto/yso/p9451 | |
dc.rights.url | http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en | |
dc.relation.doi | 10.1515/phhumyb-2021-001 | |
dc.type.okm | A1 | |