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