The discourse of the laughter theory in the optics of postpositivism and postmodernism

Abstract

The aim of the article is to show some potential resources for development of the philosophy of laughter. The authors propose to find these resources in: I) using the principle of proliferation of the theories of laughter; 2) making historical-philosophical reconstructions: 3) re-evaluating the rational foundations of critics of a certain paradigm. The methodological basis of the article includes such principles of Post-positivism as the incompleteness principle and the principle of inexhaustibility of theory. The authors consider the Postmodernist concept of Rhizome to be instrumental for understanding the interrelations between different theories of laughter. Such characteristic of Rhizome as heterogeneity allows us to see the plurality' of principally different«laughters». This allows us to define more dearly the object of research within the geliological discourse.