{"title":"Books by Noel Carroll","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9780199552221","title":"Humour","description":"Humour has been discovered in every known human culture and thinkers have discussed it for over two thousand years. Humour can serve many functions; it can be used to relieve stress, to promote goodwill among strangers, to dissipate tension within a fractious group, to display intelligence, and some have even claimed that it improves health and fights sickness. In this Very Short Introduction Noel Carroll examines the leading theories of humour including The Superiority Theory and The Incongruity Theory. He considers the relation of humour to emotion and cognition, and explores the value of humour, specifically in its social functions. He argues that humour, and the comic amusement that follows it, has a crucial role to play in the construction of communities, but he also demonstrates that the social aspect of humour raises questions such as 'When is humour immoral?' and 'Is laughing at immoral humour itself immoral?'. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56227404480885,"sku":"9780199552221","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780199552221_9d25a334-5594-4606-8b30-8a566e12d586.jpg?v=1786013016"},{"product_id":"9780415902168","title":"The Philosophy of Horror","description":"First Published in 1990. Noel Carroll, film scholar and philosopher, offers the first serious look at the aesthetics of horror. In this book he discusses the nature and narrative structures of the genre, dealing with horror as a \"transmedia\" phenomenon.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56290134065525,"sku":"9780415902168","price":51.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780415902168_3586edf5-9b17-4249-95a3-c453f060b8c0.jpg?v=1786013713"},{"product_id":"9781647920609","title":"Classics in Western Philosophy of Art","description":"In this synthetic introduction to the history of the philosophy of art, Noël Carroll elucidates and analyzes selected writings on art by Plato, Aristotle, Hutcheson, Hume, Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Tolstoy, and Bell. Carroll’s narrative tracks developments between major positions in philosophy of art, ranging from the idea that art is unavoidably embedded in society to the evolution of the notion that art is autonomous (\"art for art’s sake\"), thereby setting the stage for continuing debates in the philosophy of art.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePresupposing no prior background, and useful on its own or accompanying the reading of primary works, \u003ci\u003eClassics in Western Philosophy of Art\u003c\/i\u003e is ideal as a text for introductory undergraduate and graduate courses in philosophy of art and aesthetics, or for anyone interested in learning about the origin of some of our most fundamental conceptions of art in the Western tradition.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56303363719541,"sku":"9781647920609","price":20.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781647920609_9f4efba4-adfb-45c7-86b6-d36e119e5879.jpg?v=1786024759"},{"product_id":"9781405187145","title":"Art and Morality","description":"A rigorous philosophical examination of the ethical dimensions of art The relationship between art and ethics remains one of the most contested areas in philosophical aesthetics. Art and Morality offers a sustained investigation of how artworks engage moral life—through the emotions they arouse, the beliefs they shape, and the evaluative frameworks we apply to them. Written by a leading philosopher of art, history, and ethics, the book presents arguments for and against the ethical significance of artistic experience with analytical precision.    Three chapters examine the ways art engenders emotions for both good and ill, analyzing competing positions on whether emotional responses carry genuine moral weight. A fourth chapter turns to cognition, investigating art's capacity to influence moral beliefs. The final two chapters engage directly with autonomism—the position that art should be appreciated solely for its own sake, independent of social practices including morality—presenting arguments both supporting and challenging this view.    Art and Morality serves undergraduate and graduate courses on the relation of art to morality and society. Written in an accessible style, it also addresses general readers drawn to philosophical questions raised by the arts, providing a structured framework for debates that have shaped aesthetics over two centuries.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56368819077493,"sku":"9781405187145","price":26.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781405187145.jpg?v=1787039888"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-noel-carroll.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}