The Moral Psychology of Amusement

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The Moral Psychology of Amusement is written by Brian Robinson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1786613301 (ISBN 10) and 9781786613301 (ISBN 13).

Amusement is an emotion with power. It has the power to make us laugh, but it can also have a power over us (for good or for ill) to control our attention or memory. Amusement can empower our resistance to oppression, or it can itself become an oppressive force. Our amusement can make others feel shame. Amusement even has the power to affect (and be affected by) out moral assessment of others. This volume offers twelve essays from leading and emerging scholars that explore the moral quagmire that is the emotion of amusement. It is a collection that considers the moral psychology of amusement from a range of perspectives, going as far back as ancient Chinese and Greek philosophy up to the most current psychological and sociological findings.