Correspondence Charles Boddicker, University of Southampton, Avenue Campus, Highfield Road, Southampton SO17 1BF, UK. Email: ccb1u13@soton.ac.uk Abstract Nietzsche's writing style is designed to elicit affective responses in his readers. Humour is one of the most common means by which he attempts to engage his readers' affects. In this article, I explain how and why Nietzsche uses humour to achieve his philosophical ends. The article has three parts. In part 1, I reject interpretations of Nietzsche's humour on which he engages in self-parody in order to mitigate the charge of decadence or dogmatism by undermining his own philosophical authority. In part 2, I look at how Nietzsche uses humour and laughter as a critical tool in his polemic against traditional morality. I argue that one important way in which Nietzsche uses humour is as a vehicle for enhancing the effectiveness of his ad hominem arguments. In part 3, I show how Nietzsche exploits humour's social dimension in order to find and cultivate what he sees as the right kinds of readers for his works.

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尼采风格的幽默

通讯作者 Charles Boddicker，南安普敦大学，Avenue Campus，Highfield Road，Southampton SO17 1BF，英国。电子邮件：ccb1u13@soton.ac.uk 摘要 尼采的写作风格旨在引起读者的情感反应。幽默是他试图吸引读者影响的最常见方式之一。在这篇文章中，我将解释尼采如何以及为何使用幽默来达到他的哲学目的。文章分为三个部分。在第 1 部分中，我拒绝解释尼采的幽默，他通过自我模仿来减轻对颓废或教条主义的指责，从而削弱他自己的哲学权威。在第 2 部分中，我将研究尼采如何将幽默和笑声用作他反对传统道德的论战的关键工具。我认为，尼采使用幽默的一个重要方式是作为提高其人身攻击有效性的工具。在第 3 部分中，我将展示尼采如何利用幽默的社会维度来寻找和培养他认为适合其作品的读者类型。