About the book: 1981 / The publication is the first complete translation into Russian of the famous aesthetic work of the German writer of the late 18th - early 19th centuries. Jean-Paul. The most valuable and vibrant pages of the book are devoted to the problems of comic, humor, and irony. Jean-Paul's presentation, far from the abstractness of theoretical treatises, uses a brilliant and extremely original literary technique inherent in all works of art of the writer. For specialists in aesthetics, literary scholars, as well as readers interested in the history of culture.