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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Žižek, Slavoj.

Žižek’s jokes : (did you hear the one about Hegel and negation?) / by Slavoj Žižek ; edited by Audun Mortensen ; afterword by Momus.

  p.  cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN 978-0-262-02671-0 (hardcover : alk. paper)  1. Wit and humor—Philosophy.  2. Wit and humor—Psychological aspects.  3. Philosophy—Humor.  4. Joking—Psychological aspects. I. Mortensen, Audun. II. Title.

PN6149.P5Z59  2013

808.87—dc23

2013019607

 

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