笑的哲學Laughter in Philosophy
北京聯合出版公司Beijing Union Publishing Company
笑的哲學
在這本書裏，笑不是單純的快樂反應，而是一套暗中運行的人類機制：它讓僵硬的人回到隊伍裏，讓虛榮的人露出破綻，讓權威忽然失去威嚴，也讓恐怖鬆開一條縫。笑有時候是規訓，有時候是反擊，有時候是人給自己留下的退路。
《笑的哲學》是一本寫給喜劇時代的思想小書。作者從柏格森、康德、波德萊爾、黑格爾、亞當·斯密、維特根斯坦、亞里士多德、霍布斯、叔本華、弗洛伊德、巴赫金、西塞羅等思想家的論述出發，圍繞“笑是什麼”“笑來自什麼”“如何使用笑”三個問題，重新理解笑、幽默、滑稽、喜劇與人類處境之間的關係。
Laughter in Philosophy
In this book, laughter is not simply a reaction of pleasure but a human mechanism quietly at work: it brings the rigid back into line, lets the vain give themselves away, suddenly strips authority of its dignity, and makes terror loosen its grip a little. Laughter is sometimes discipline, sometimes a counterattack, and sometimes a way out that people leave themselves.
Laughter in Philosophy is a small book of ideas written for an age of comedy. Starting from what thinkers including Bergson, Kant, Baudelaire, Hegel, Adam Smith, Wittgenstein, Aristotle, Hobbes, Schopenhauer, Freud, Bakhtin and Cicero have said, the author, Huang Jingou, takes up three questions, what laughter is, where it comes from and how to use it, to rethink how laughter, humour, the comic and comedy relate to the human condition.