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Nietzsche saw laughter as a complex phenomenon that could be either profound or trivial, depending on whether it was Dionysian or Apollonian/Socratic in nature. He contrasted the stately laughter of Apollo with the shrill laughter of Silenus, and argued that Euripides undermined Greek tragedy by introducing a new form of degenerate laughter through Socratic rationalism. Bergson and Freud later developed theories of laughter that focused on its intellectual or psychic functions but did not fully account for
- Author
- Jeanne Cameron
- Language
- EN