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The relaxing of censorship in Britain at the turn of the eighteenth century led to an explosion of satires, caricatures, and comic hoaxes. This new vogue for ridicule unleashed moral panic and prompted warnings that it would corrupt public debate. But ridicule also had vocal defenders who saw it as a means to expose hypocrisy, unsettle the arrogant, and deflate the powerful. 'Uncivil Mirth' examines how leading thinkers of the period searched for a humane form of ridicule, one that served the causes of religious toleration, the abolition of the slave trade, and the dismantling of patriarchal power.

Ridicule. --- Enlightenment. --- Enlightenment --- Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, --- Great Britain. --- Great Britain --- History. --- Aufklärung --- Eighteenth century --- Philosophy, Modern --- Rationalism --- England --- History --- Burke. --- Edmund Burke. --- English Enlightenment. --- Francis Hutcheson. --- Henry Sacheverell. --- Hobbes. --- Humean skepticism. --- Jeremy Waldron. --- Lawrence Klein. --- Leviathan. --- Perils of False Brethren. --- Protestantism. --- Scottish Enlightenment. --- Scottish abolitionists. --- Shaftesbury and the Culture of Politeness. --- The Harm in Hate Speech. --- Thomas Hobbes. --- comedy. --- cultural history. --- dissolute mirth. --- feminism. --- free speech. --- freedom of speech. --- humor. --- mockery. --- offense. --- politeness. --- politics of toleration. --- public sphere. --- public square. --- religious fanaticism. --- slavery. --- Intellectual life --- Ashley, --- Cooper, Anthony Ashley, --- Shaftesbury, Antony Ashley Cooper, --- Shaftesbury, --- Ṣāpṭspari Pirapu, --- Freedom of speech --- Ridicule --- Political aspects --- Fanaticism --- Free speech --- Liberty of speech --- Speech, Freedom of --- Civil rights --- Freedom of expression --- Assembly, Right of --- Freedom of information --- Intellectual freedom --- Law and legislation --- Pragmatics --- History of civilization --- Shaftesbury, of, Anthony A.C.