Δόξα / DOXA

Collected Scientific Articles on the Philosophy and the Philology

Issue (1)25. 2016 y.

Laughter in the sphere of the Mean

This edition is the twenty fifth issue of the collected scientific articles
on the philosophy and the philology devoted to various problems of the
laughter and its features. The articles consider the philosophical, cultural,
anthropological, philological etc. aspects of the laughter.
For philosophers, philologists, students on the humanities and wide circle
of readers.

CONTENTS

 

Section 1. RIDICULOUS IN HUMAN BEING AND COGNITION
Afanasyev A., Vasilenko I.
Irony and laughter		 7
Shevtsov S.
Laughter as death		 19
Mykhailiuk A.
Semiotic aspects of laughter (article 2)		 35
Rybka N.
Creativity, creative competence and philosophical theories of humor		 44
Kozhemiakina O.
Gender aspects of conceptual communications of laughter		 53
Kyrylyuk O.
Paradoxically laughing during ritual destruction of pagan deities, tale «Speckled hen», Apollo as a little field mouse and joyousness because of the creation of the world		 62

 

Section 2. LAUGHTER AND COMIC FORMS IN LITERATURE
Bilianska O.
Narcissus archetype in «philosophical smile» of Grygoriy Skovoroda		 75
Zviniatskovsky V.
“A funny thing will show itself by itself”: the diversity of laughings in Gogol’s “The inspector”		 83
Vak M.
The suspicion of the possibility for a dialogue of consciousnesses in Dostoevsky		 93
Lavrentev A.
Humanism of black humor in short stories by George Saunders		 104
Poliakova A.
Irony as axiological component of modern poetical discourse (On the material of poetic association «Siberian Road»)		 114

 

Section 3. FORMS OF LAUGHTER IN ART AND SOCIETY
Kryshevska L.
Ñarnival and heroic. Points of coincidence		 124
Yanushevich I., Lanovaya D.
The features of reflection of the Odessa humor		 131
Rayhert K.
The satire in Paul Verhoeven’s Robocop		 140
Kovalyova N., Levchenko V.
«Bastards in the opera», or anormativity as norm in contemporary musical theatre		 153
Borodina N.
The meme as a simulacrum of laughter on social networks		 164
Tikhomirova F.
Life will teach to laugh through tears (or laughter in the hospital walls)		 175

 

Section 4. PHILOSOPHICAL ESSAYS
Sobolevskaya E.
Collective madness, or one can not go mad alone		 194

English Ukraine