Why Can't Philosophers Laugh?

1. Introduction
Katrin Froese

Part I. European Perspectives

2. We Have a Body!: Kant, Schopenhauer and Bergson
Katrin Froese

3. Redeeming Laughter in Nietzsche
Katrin Froese

4. Humour and Finitude in Kierkegaard
Katrin Froese

Part II. Chinese Perspectives

5. A Comic Confucius?
Katrin Froese

6. Humour as the Playful Sidekick to Language in the Zhuangzi

Katrin Froese

7. Laughing for Nothing in Chan Buddhism
Katrin Froese

8. After/words: Laughing Philosophy Away/Philosophy Laughing Away?
Katrin Froese

Keywords: Philosophy, Philosophy of Man, Asian Literature, Asian Culture, History of China