Laughter - An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic

Klappentext This classic explores why people laugh and what laughter means. According to Bergson, laughter helps us retain our humanity during an age of mechanization. His belief in life as a vital impulse, indefinable by reason alone, informs his perception of comedy as the relief we experience upon distancing ourselves from the mechanistic. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter I The Comic in General--The Comic Element in Forms and Movements--Expansive Force of the ComicChapter II The Comic Element in Situations and the Comic Element in WordsChapter III The Comic in Character

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• Authors: Henri Bergson, Henri Louis Bergson, Henri/ Brereton Bergson
• Assisted by: Cloudesley Brereton (Translation), Cloudesley Shovell Henry Brereton (Translation), Fred Rothwell (Translation)
• Publisher: Dover Publications Inc.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.09.2005
• EAN: 9780486443805
• ISBN: 978-0-486-44380-5
• No. of pages: 98
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 216 mm x 6 mm
• Series: Dover Books on Western Philosophy; Dover Books on Western Philoso; Dover Books on Western Philosophy; Dover Books on Western Philoso
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology