 | Noël Carroll - 2001 - 468 pages
...those grimaces called laughter; and it is caused either by some sudden act of their own, that pleases them; or by the apprehension of some deformed thing in another by comparison whereof they applaud themselves.17 That is, on Hobbes's view, the source of comic laughter, indeed of all laughter,... | |
 | Geoff King - 2002 - 244 pages
...quoted for his notion of laughter as the passion 'caused either by some sudden act of their own, that pleaseth them; or by the apprehension of some deformed...comparison whereof they suddenly applaud themselves' (1651/19o9, Part 1. Chapter 6: 45). See KeithSpiegel 1972 for an outline of this and other early theories... | |
 | Quentin Skinner - 2002 - 430 pages
...focuses exclusively on what he had always taken to be the principal cause of people's laughter, namely 'the apprehension of some deformed thing in another, by comparison whereof they suddenly applaud themselves'.66 We can summarise by saying that, in the view of the writers I have been considering,... | |
 | Manfred Pfister - 2002 - 220 pages
...affections: And it [ie laughter] is incident most to them, that are conscious of the fewest ahilities in themselves; who are forced to keep themselves in their own favour hy ohserving the unperfections of other men. And therefore much laughter at the defects of others,... | |
 | M. S. Silk - 2002 - 468 pages
...is essentially ridicule and connotes superiority: the audience (in Hohhes's famous wordsl apprebend 'some deformed thing in another, by comparison whereof they suddenly applaud themselves' in an experiential moment of 'sudden glory'.4' This view of comedy was oppused on one front by Samuel... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 2003 - 824 pages
...Lci-ia;han, part 1, sect 6, the well-known 'sudden glory' theory of laughter, which derives it in part from the 'apprehension of some deformed thing in another,...comparison whereof they suddenly applaud themselves'; see also Tripos, Discourse I (Human Nature), ch. ix, sect. 13. * Satires, I. x. 14—15: 'ridiculum... | |
 | Dean L. Yarwood - 2004 - 178 pages
...glory," which he covers in a short paragraph within a nearly fivehundred page tome. He writes that "Sudden Glory, is the passion which maketh those Grimaces...comparison whereof they suddenly applaud themselves" ([1651] 1991, 43, emphasis in original). Moreover, a point that has been lost in the litany of successive... | |
 | Wolfgang Wildgen - 2004 - 264 pages
..."Leviathan" (1651), Hobbes says that "laughter": (...) is caused either by some sudden act of their own, that pleaseth them; or by the apprehension of some deformed...comparison whereof they suddenly applaud themselves. (Cf. Burtt 1967: 152.) "Laughter" is treated in the chapter on passion and preceded by "vain-glory"... | |
 | James A. Steintrager - 2004 - 238 pages
...which maketh those grimaces called LAUGHTER, and is caused either by some sudden act of their own that pleaseth them, or by the apprehension of some deformed thing in another, by comparison thereof they suddenly applaud themselves" (Leviathan, 32). For Hutcheson's critique (which paints Hobbes... | |
 | Francesco Parisi, Vernon L. Smith - 2005 - 634 pages
...our discovery of superiority to a butt "and is caused either by some sudden act of their own, that pleaseth them; or by the apprehension of some deformed...comparison whereof they suddenly applaud themselves" (Hobbes 1651/1968). The Hobbesian account of motivation is thin, as there are a good many things that... | |
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Sudden glory," is the passion which maketh those "grimaces" called "laughter"; and is caused either by some sudden act of their own, that pleaseth them ; or by the apprehension of some deformed thing in another, by comparison whereof they suddenly applaud... 
