With humor and comedy. An aesthetic-psychological study of Theodor Lipps (1851-1914), whose first edition appeared in 1898 in Germany, Mexico Editorial Herder rescues a major reference work that despite defend its importance, especially in the German and US universities, in Spanish was until today unknown.
Humor and comedy is a scholarly study that reflects the Zeitgeist of an era that clearly sees the twilight of the unconscious and the importance of psychology. In it, Lipps examines the phenomena of laughter on the basis that each emotional state has its aspect of consciousness and that this is associated with the hidden or invisible aspects.
We note that the author, as one of the most influential philosophers and psychologists of his day, was an exemplary teacher. Among his students are, for example, Ernst Bloch and Max Scheler. One of his biggest fans was none other than Sigmund Freud. In fact, Lipps and Freud are the most important representatives of the theory of the unconscious.
We present the reader with a faithful translation and meticulously maintained in a maximum effort to preserve the style and show clearly the substance, although some of the paradigms used by the author be understood apart from the time and as readers may seem distant or controversial.
For its intellectual relevance, we selected this title to join the Texts collection of German culture, which aims to provide the reader with excellent translations of works originally written in German and whose Weltanschauung has transcended linguistic and territorial boundaries.