Clair Morrissey

The Virtue of Wit

Humor, Social Connection, and Flourishing

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Clair Morrissey defends a novel account of wit as the ability to artfully deploy playful ingenuity with words and behaviors that constitute our everyday shared social landscape. She argues that this aptitude for building human connection should be understood as a virtue, partially constitutive of living a good human life.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Januar 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781666929669
• ISBN-10: 1666929662
• Artikelnr.: 72701363

Autorenporträt

Clair Morrissey is professor of philosophy at Occidental College.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter One
A History of Wit
Chapter Two
The Nature of Wit
Chapter Three
Non-Ideal Virtue Ethics and Impure Agency
Chapter Four
The Virtue of Wit
Chapter Five
Wit's Vices