IT MIGHT SOUND book about humor while living through a cancer diagnosis, major surgery, and a global pandemic”. Yet David Shoemaker calls it “the most joyful experience of my academic life”. is clearly the work of an academic philosopher adept at teasing out fine distinctions between “offenses” and “harms”, or between “radical subjectivist, intersubjectivist, and objectivist theories of the funny”. Fortunately, it is also lively, provocative, and often very amusing in its determination to challenge many contemporary pieties.
