Redeeming Laughter

Redeeming Laughter
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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages : 236
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ISBN-10 : 9783110810660
ISBN-13 : 3110810662
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Book Synopsis Redeeming Laughter by : Peter L. Berger

Download or read book Redeeming Laughter written by Peter L. Berger and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-02-06 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of numerous previous books of broad appeal and scholarly acclaim on subjects ranging from sociological theory to religious ethics in government and economic systems, and the coauthor of a vastly influential treatise on The Social Construction of Reality, Berger unfolds in Redeeming Laughter a new perspective on a classic domain. Berger's comic terrain is at once noble and amusing, the terrain of Erasmus and Swift. Like his predecessors', Berger's writing in these pages is bolstered with exemplary learning and wry observation.


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