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Simon Critchley skillfully probes some of the most perennial but least understood features of humour, such as our tendency to laugh at animals and our bodies, why we mock death with comedy and why we think it's funny when people act like machines.

Philosophical anthropology --- Philosophy and psychology of culture --- 82-7 --- Humor. Satire --- 82-7 Humor. Satire --- Wit and humor --- Philosophy. --- Psychological aspects. --- History and criticism. --- 82-7 Prose satire. Humour, epigram, parody etc. --- Prose satire. Humour, epigram, parody etc. --- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY --- Wit and humor. --- Literary.