{"product_id":"canetti-and-nietzsche-harriet-murphy-9780791431344","title":"Canetti and Nietzsche: Theories of Humor in Die Blendung","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis first full-length study investigates the profound implications of the peculiarly original sense of humor found in Elias Canetti's single novel--a facetiousness, understood in a Nietzschean sense, as a revolutionary aesthetic.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow translated into more than twenty-two languages, Die Blendung, known in its English translation as either The Tower of Babel or Auto-da-Fe, has become something of a popular novel. Canetti and Nietzsche is the first full-length study of Canetti's novel to do justice to the profound implications of its peculiarly original sense of humor, one which typically finds its expression in facetiousness. It understands facetiousness, through Nietzsche, as a performance art--an art that equates truth with the wisdom that life should be about the effort we put into creative acts. Examining both the theory and practice of humor, Murphy relates her own theoretical insights to the international debates concerning the influence of political correctness and the liberal Left inside and outside the universities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Harriet Murphy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0791431347\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780791431344\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e State University of New York Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/20\/1996\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 444\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.41lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.97h x 5.87w x 0.81d","brand":"Harriet Murphy","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48065125318911,"sku":"9780791431344","price":37.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_33feb4a8-f3e2-4671-83a9-7940097f46a9.jpg?v=1768673155","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/canetti-and-nietzsche-harriet-murphy-9780791431344","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}