Satire, Comedy and Mental Health : Coping with the Limits of Critique Hardback
by Dieter (University of Kent, UK) Declercq
Part of the Emerald Points series
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Satire, Comedy and Mental Health examines how satire helps to sustain good mental health in a troubled socio-political world.
Through an interdisciplinary dialogue that combines approaches from the analytic philosophy of art, medical and health humanities, media studies, and psychology, the book demonstrates how satire enables us to negotiate a healthy balance between care for others and care of self. Building on a thorough philosophical explication and close analysis of satire in various forms - including novels, music, TV, film, cartoons, memes, stand-up comedy and protest artefacts - Declercq investigates how we can harness satiricalentertainment to ease the limits of critique.
In so doing, the book presents a compelling case that, while satire cannot hope to cure our sick world, it can certainly help us to copewith it.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:160 pages
- Publisher:Emerald Publishing Limited
- Publication Date:13/01/2021
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- ISBN:9781839096679
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Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:160 pages
- Publisher:Emerald Publishing Limited
- Publication Date:13/01/2021
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- ISBN:9781839096679
