A Sensibility of Humour
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4158716 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Zoe Walker (0000-0002-5640-2944, University of Oxford, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 64 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-16 |
| Publication date | 2024-01-17 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The British Journal of Aesthetics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-0904 • E-ISSN: 1468-2842 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/aesthj/ayad020 |
| OpenAlex | W4388000242 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 16 |
What does it say about you if you enjoy sexist humour? One answer to this question holds that finding sexist humour funny reveals that you have sexist beliefs, whilst another holds that it reveals nothing deeper about you at all. I argue that neither of these answers are correct, as neither can capture the feeling of unwilling complicity we often get from enjoying sexist jokes. Rather, we should navigate between these two positions by understanding the sense of humour as a kind of sensibility or taste, analogous to Anne Eaton's account of erotic taste. This allows for a fleshing out of the purely belief-centred understanding of the sense of humour, adding emotional, perceptual and motivational aspects to it. Finally, I propose that one's sense of humour is shaped the representations one engages with, which suggests a possible avenue for habituating it in a more egalitarian direction
Aesthetics · Art · Complicity · Empathy · Epistemology · Feeling · Literature · Nothing · Perception · Sensibility · Taste · Ethics, Aesthetics, and Art · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Humor Studies and Applications · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |