The University of Chicago Press continues to offer one free e-book every month. While most of these are academically challenging, this month’s free selection is excellent. The March 2010 free e-book selection is Jokes: Philosophical Thoughts on Joking Matters by Ted Cohen.
The March 2010 free e-book selection is Jokes: Philosophical Thoughts on Joking Matters by Ted Cohen. Get it at http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ebooks/free_ebook.html
“A lucid and jargon-free study…replete with killer jokes.”—Kevin McCardle, The Herald (Glasgow)
“Tells us many remarkable things about intimacy, about explanation, understanding and belief, about Jews and, more or less inadvertently, about philosophers.”—Adam Phillips, London Review of Books
Ted Cohen is professor of philosophy at the University of Chicago. His academic work is primarily in the philosophy of art and he is also the moderator and master of ceremonies at Chicago’s annual Latke-Hamantash Debate.
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