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CONTENTS
Section 1. THE LAUGHTER CULTURE FROM
THE BEGINNING TILL THE PRESENT TIME
Kiriliuk O. “Ha-ha” Said the Clown: Buffoon as Beast, Totem, King,
Slave and Victim (Universal-Cultural Stage Analysis of the Circus
Clown Image) ........................................................................................... 8
Troitskiy S. Fools and Buffoons as Representatives of “Sources of
Laughter” ............................................................................................... 18
Reiderman I. Laughter as Identification of Being ................................... 28
Zolotariova O. The Formula of Happy Laughter .................................... 36
Golozubov A. Laughter Traditions in English Social-Philosophical
Fiction .................................................................................................... 43
Pomogayev N. Laughter as Representation of Group’s Snobbism ........... 53
Krasikov M. Ritual-Festival Forms of Laughter Culture of
Contemporary Ukrainian Students (Setting the Problem) ......................... 61
Section 2. SEMANTICS AND HERMENEUTICS
OF LAUGHTER
Okorokov V. Face and Folds of Society (Transgressions of
Laughter) ................................................................................................ 71
Afanasyev A., Vasilenko I. Narrative Foundations of Laughter’s
Objects ................................................................................................... 79
Skidanova V. Joke as the Object of Laughter’s Creativity ...................... 87
Darenskiy V. Laughter in a Dialogue: Phenomenon of Semantic
Collapse ................................................................................................. 94
Kolesnik O. The Comic in Translation .................................................. 103
Menzhulin V. Funny, Empty and Sorrowful in Contemporary
Philosophy ............................................................................................. 111
Barkovskiy P. Hermeneutical Interpretation of Laughter as Imitative
Behavior ............................................................................................... 119
Ivanova-Georgiyevskaya N. Apotheosis as Representation of
Non-laughing ........................................................................................ 127
Levchenko V. Laughter as Differentiation ............................................. 137
Yarosh L. Lessons of Laughing ............................................................ 143
Mukhutdinov O. Suppositional, Laughing and Being in Plato’s
Dialogue “Protagoras” .......................................................................... 149
Bystrova S. Aesthetical Character of Antique Conceptions of
Laughing (Cicero and Aristotle) ............................................................ 154
Golubovich I. Democritus’ Laughter and Heraclitus’ Tears.
Laughing Origins in Antique Biography ................................................. 162
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