Laughter An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic
by Bergson, Henri; Brereton, Cloudesley; Rothwell, FredFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2005-09-13
Publisher(s): Dover Publications
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Summary
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.
Table of Contents
| The Comic in General-The Comic Element in Forms and Movements-Expansive Force of the Comic | p. 1 |
| The Comic Element in Situations and the Comic Element in Words | p. 33 |
| The Comic in Character | p. 65 |
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