Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Kianpour, Connor K

Titel

Strong Comic Immoralism

Ist Teil von

• The Journal of aesthetics and art criticism, 2023-12, Vol.81 (3), p.363-377

Ort / Verlag

UK: Oxford University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2023

Quelle

International Bibliography of Art (IBA)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Abstract Strong comic immoralism maintains that every time a humorous demonstration (for example, a joke) involves a moral defect, it is enhanced aesthetically in virtue of having this moral defect. I want to show that strong comic immoralism is a coherent position, that it is possible to defend, and that there is, in fact, some reason to defend it. By doing this, my hope is that, moving forward, those who are interested in questions about the relationship between immorality and the aesthetic value of jokes will take more seriously the objections that may be presented against their views by the strong comic immoralist, rather than claiming that “no one on this side of Satan” would be one.