Semantical and Hermeneutical Measures of Laughing.

 

This edition is the ninth issue of the collected articles on the philosophy and the philology devoted to the problem of the laughter and its features. The articles consider the philosophical, logical, cultural, anthropological, philological etc. aspects of the laughter.

For philosophers, philologists, students on the humanities and wide circle of readers.

 

CONTENTS

 

Section 1. THE LAUGHTER CULTURE FROM THE BEGINNING TILL THE PRESENT TIME

Kiriliuk O.
“Ha-ha” Said the Clown: Buffoon as Beast, Totem, King, Slave and Victim (Universal-Cultural Stage Analysis of the Circus Clown Image)
8
Troitskiy S.
Fools and Buffoons as Representatives of “Sources of Laughter”
18
Reiderman I.
Laughter as Identification of Being
28
Zolotariova O.
The Formula of Happy Laughter
36
Golozubov A.
Laughter Traditions in English Social-Philosophical Fiction
43
Pomogayev N.
Laughter as Representation of Group’s Snobbism
53
Krasikov M.
Ritual-Festival Forms of Laughter Culture of Contemporary Ukrainian Students (Setting the Problem)
61

 

Section 2. SEMANTICS AND HERMENEUTICS OF LAUGHTER

Okorokov V.
Face and Folds of Society (Transgressions of Laughter)
71
Afanasyev A., Vasilenko I.
Narrative Foundations of Laughter’s Objects
79
Skidanova V.
Joke as the Object of Laughter’s Creativity
87
Darenskiy V.
Laughter in a Dialogue: Phenomenon of Semantic Collapse
94
Kolesnik O.
The Comic in Translation
103
Menzhulin V.
Funny, Empty and Sorrowful in Contemporary Philosophy
111
Barkovskiy P.
Hermeneutical Interpretation of Laughter as Imitative Behavior
119
Ivanova-Georgiyevskaya N.
Apotheosis as Representation of Non-laughing
127
Levchenko V.
Laughter as Differentiation
137
Yarosh L.
Lessons of Laughing
143
Mukhutdinov O.
Suppositional, Laughing and Being in Plato’s Dialogue “Protagoras”
149
Bystrova S.
Aesthetical Character of Antique Conceptions of Laughing (Cicero and Aristotle)
154
Golubovich I.
Democritus’ Laughter and Heraclitus’ Tears. Laughing Origins in Antique Biography
162

 

Section 3. COMICAL IN ART

Kazanevskiy V.
Contemporary caricature and philosophical conceptions
173
Kashuba M.
Ivan Franko as an investigator of funny folk songs
188
Zhaksalykov A., Baktybayeva A.
Sufian Laughter in Kazakh Literature
195
Burchak L.
Comical in 19th Century Georgian Literature (Ilya Chavchavadze)
201
Krishevskaya L.
Between Laughter and Tragedy (Poetics of Boris Vian Novel “Days Foam”)
208

 

Section 4. TRANSLATIONS

Adorno T. W.
Jargon der Eigentlichkeit. Zur Deutschen Ideologie (translated from German by E. Borisov)
216
Wischke M.
Die «Verleiblichung» der Empfindungen in der Sprache. Hegel über die Stimme und das Lachen (translated from German
by O. Korolkova)
236