Fighting the stigmas of demeaning jokes. A view from Pirandello’s humourism Carrasco Barranco, Matilde Humorismo Aesthetics of Humor Pirandello, Luigi Incongruity theory Recent Anglo-American philosophical aesthetics analyses humour in terms of three major accounts: the incongruity theory, the superiority theory and the relief from tension theory, whose formerly supposed rivalry have recently been questioned in favour of their complementarity. Focusing mainly on the incongruity and superiority theory, and by following Pirandello’s humourism, my aim is to defend the possibility, compromised by the implications of these accounts, of humour having actual cognitive and practical impact, challenging prejudices and social norms, often dangerous stereotypes that humiliate and stigmatize weak and vulnerable people. 2026-01-19T09:20:04Z 2026-01-19T09:20:04Z 2023 book part João Paulo Capelotti e Constantino Pereira Martins (Orgs.) "Incitatus: reflexões sobre humor e política". Editora Dialética. 2023, pp.91-108. ISBN 9786525285955. https://hdl.handle.net/10481/109859 eng PID2019-106351GB-I00 20934/PI/18 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ embargoed access Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License