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The initial study of Husserl’s phenomenology revealed the difficulty of conceptualizing the experience of laughter within the framework of so-called ‘transcendental subjectivity’, in which emphasis is placed upon the unity and persistence of the flow of consciousness. This insight allowed the researcher to explain in part why philosophy has struggled to articulate the experience of laughter without sliding from the laughter response itself into the study of the humor which may induce that response. Papers published and presented by the researcher in the fields of philosophy and humor studies referred to the influence of Nietzsche’s notion of a transcendental laughter to argue that understanding laughter’s capacity to transform emotional conditions and cognitive operations required a conceptual framework different to that insisting upon subjective unity and undisturbed duration of consciousness.
In these papers the researcher began to demonstrate the benefits of treating laughter beyond notions of communicational function or assumed emotional content, by viewing it as a mechanism dislocating the flow of consciousness and the subjective experience of duration. It was argued, with exemplification, that this reconceptualization of laughter may be usefully applied not only to philosophy but also to cultural, literary and education studies. At the same time, by extending the study of laughter into the realm of subjective temporality, the research has opened connections to the increased study of time in the fields of psychology and sociology.
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