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Religion and humor as emancipating provinces of meaning
Michael Barber
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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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-62190-6
Full citation:
Barber, M. (2017). Religion and humor as emancipating provinces of meaning, Springer, Dordrecht.
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