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International Studies in Phenomenology and Philosophy

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Religion and humor as emancipating provinces of meaning

Michael Barber(Saint Louis University)

Abstract

​This book illustrates how non-pragmatic finite provinces of meaning emancipate one from pragmatic everyday pressures. Barber portrays everyday life originally, as including the interplay between intrinsic and imposed relevances, the unavoidable pursuit of pragmatic mastery, and the resulting tensions non-pragmatic provinces can relieve. But individuals and groups also inevitably resort to meta-level strategies of hyper-mastery to protect set ways of satisfying lower-level relevances—strategies that easily augment individual anxiety and social pathologies.

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The finite province of religious meaning

form of spontaneity, experience of self, sociality, and time-perspective

Michael Barber(Saint Louis University)

pp.107-144

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62190-6_6
The finite province of humorous meaning

preliminary clarifications, tension of consciousness, epoché, and form of spontaneity

Michael Barber(Saint Louis University)

pp.173-196

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62190-6_8

Publication details

Publisher: Springer

Place: Dordrecht

Year: 2017

Pages: 231, xv

Series: Contributions to Phenomenology

Series volume: 91

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-62190-6

ISBN (hardback): 9783319621890

ISBN (digital): 9783319621906

Full citation:

Barber Michael (2017) Religion and humor as emancipating provinces of meaning. Dordrecht, Springer.