Table of Contents

Acknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. Jokes Are Conditional 3. When Jokes Are Asymmetrical 4. Problems and Occasions for Joke-making 5. Jewish Jokes and the Acceptance of Absurdity 6. Taste, Morality, and the Propriety of Joking Appendix Index of Jokes

About the Author

Ted Cohen (1939-2014) was a professor of philosophy at the University of Chicago from 1967 until his death. He was the auhor of Jokes: Philosophical Thoughts on Joking Matters and Thinking of Others: On the Talent for Metaphor and co-editor of Essays in Kant's Aesthetics and Pursuits of Reason: Essays in Honor of Stanley Cavell.