Laughing on the Brink of Humanity

Laughing on the Brink of HumanityStretching from antiquity to AI, a provocative study of the joyless laughter that emerges at the boundary of the human and the inhuman. What does it mean to be human? And, more precisely, what does it mean to be human now, with both humanism and the humanities in crisis? In answer to these questions, Laughing on the Brink of Humanity seeks not some essence of the human but rather an epiphenomenal manifestation a sign of the human. The book finds such

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flaws and outcomes of US domestic policy from the Depression to the outbreak of the Second World War

to actively participate in defending and guarding their settlements as part of their broader view of women having an equal right to share the burden of building the Jewish national home in Palestine

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person-centered psychotherapy as an alternative to the prevailing emotionally and system disengaged drug-centered approach

Focusing on Michigan during the Great Depression

which includes the Progressive era and the New Deal

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Explores the human propensity for owning and having