Abstract
What do philosophy and verbal humor have in common? The given book answers this question in a concise and rigorous manner, thus not only providing an introduction to philosophy and its problems through the comicality of language but also by a philosophical exegesis of humor on the basis of contrast and the negative conceptions of experience. In dealing with this exegesis, the book takes advantage of Hegel's writings and, most importantly, Felix Holzmann's sketches and dialogues.
The night during which one can go bear hunting for rabbits along with Holzmann is the night in which all cows are black, i.e. Hegel's Absolute.
In it, all conceptual differences - not only between bear and rabbit but, more generally, between true and false, beautiful and ugly, or good and bad - can vanish if one does not sufficiently value the complicated relation between language and the world. Language is not only the means for the arbitrary naming of how things are in the world but the medium of their meaning.
Verbal humor reveals and manifests this truth that is, in fact, the truth about truth.