Among the perspectives used to help define The Great Cosmic Joke, Joseph Meeker's The Comedy of Survival played a vital early role in developing leaps in understanding in order to develop other *behavioural* observations.
Since that time, Professor Meeker has contributed directly to this web site. Read his further thoughts in Comedy and A Play Ethic.
JOSEPH W. MEEKER is a human ecologist with a Ph.D. in comparative literature, and master's and postdoctoral studies in wildlife ecology and comparative animal and human behavior. He has taught in several universities, and is currently a Core Faculty member at the Graduate School of the Union Institute. His books include Spheres of Life, The Comedy of Survival, and Minding the Earth.
The Comedy of Survival
Since publication of the first edition more than twenty years ago, The Comedy of Survival has been credited as the founding work in the field of literary ecology, the study of relationships between the literary arts and scientific ecology. Here, Joseph Meeker expands upon his consideration of comedy and tragedy, not as dramatic motifs for humor and sadness but rather as forms of adaptive behavior in the natural world that either promote our survival (comedy) or estrange us from other life forms (tragedy).
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