Lydia L. Moland is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Colby College.  She is the author of "Hegel on Political Identity: Patriotism, National Identity, Cosmopolitanism" and of numerous articles on Hegel’s political philosophy and philosophy of art.  She has been a recipient of fellowships from the American Academy of Berlin, the DAAD, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

• Chapter 1. Introduction (Lydia Moland).- Chapter 2. The Ends of Art: Hegel on Comedy and Humor from Aristophanes to Jean Paul (Lydia Moland).- Chapter 3. Schlegel on Humor and Comedy  (Katia Hay).- Chapter 4. Jean Paul on Humor (William Coker).- Chapter 5.  Caricature, Philosophy and the Aesthetics of the Ugly: Some Questions for Rosenkranz (Allen Speight).- Chapter 6. Humor as Redemption in the Pessimistic Philosophy of Julius Bahnsen (Frederick Beiser).- Chapter 7. Schopenhauer’s Incongruity Theory of Humor (Robert Wicks).- Chapter 8. ‘What Time Is It?....Eternity’: Kierkegaard’s Socratic Use of Hegel’s Insights on Romantic Humor (Marcia Robinson).- Chapter 9. Jest as Humility: Kierkegaard and the Possibility of Virtue (John Lippitt).- Chapter 10. The Divine Hanswurst: Nietzsche on Laughter and Comedy (Matthew Meyer).- Chapter 11. Bergson’s On Laughter (Keith Ansell-Pearson).