The Laughter of Sarah

" This is an ingeniously conceived study of a peculiar and peculiarly important phenomenon: the laughter of sheer delight. Conybeare once again shows us the benefits of being able to blend a classicist' s discipline of reading with an unfettered philosophical imagination. " - James Wetzel, Professor of Philosophy, Villanova University, US

" The Laughter of Sarah is a beautifully written, elegantly conceptualized, and wide ranging meditation on what Conybeare dubs " the laughter of delight. " Deftly navigating the thought worlds of theorists both ancient and modern, religious and secular, Conybeare shows us a side of laughter that is often neglected - laughter that is joyous, embodied, eruptive, radically open, and thereby also deeply subversive of reigning assumptions about what it means to know, to be, to live, to love. " - Virginia Burrus, Professor, Drew University, USA