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Institute of Continuing Education (ICE)

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This course is part of the Interdisciplinary Summer Programme Term III.

To apply for this course, please enrol on the programme above, and then select the courses you wish to study. For more information about Summer Programmes please visit our Summer Programmes Page.

We will explore the tensions between humour and philosophy through rare, but insightful, remarks from the history of philosophy; including René Descartes, Immanuel Kant, Henri Bergson and Ludwig Wittgenstein. We will assess historical and contemporary theories of what humour consists in and determine how humour informs existential questions of how one ought to live.

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Course dates

06 Aug 2018 to 17 Aug 2018

Course duration

2 weeks

Apply by

23 Jul 2018

Academic Directors, Course Directors and Tutors are subject to change, when necessary.

Venue

International Summer Programmes
Sidgwick Site
Cambridge
United Kingdom
01223 760850

Teaching sessions

Meetings: 10

Course code

C34