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Christophe Cave, « Le rire des anti-philosophes », Dix-Huitième Siècle, ID : 10.3406/dhs.2000.2350
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Anti-philosophical laughter. How was the question of laughter posed by the "anti-philosophes" ? By representing the laughter of their adversaries - seen as a homogeneous group - as a sign of social rupture, destruction of relationships, the expression of an opposition between good and bad laughter based on the axiological distinction between cheerfulness and wit (or mockery or disturbing outbursts). This laughter is also presented as a sign of the hubris of Reason, forbidden by theology, but which the philosophes tried to exempt from this condemnation. The philosophes' enemies used the theatre and notions of "type" and "character", to create a new topical vulgate of social and ideological images. Moreau, Sabatier de Castres, Fréron or Palissot attribute to these images, sometimes explicitly, the imagined function of social catharsis and political regulation.