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- In emphasizing the social nature of laughter, Bergson emphasized comedy as a concept that draws people together. He saw participating in a shared joke as representing community membership and laughter as something that is directed against outsiders.
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laughter · henri bergson p. 2a laughter · henri bergson p. 2b laughter an essay on the meaning of the comic by henri bergson member of the institute professor at the college de france authorised translation by cloudesley brereton l. es l. (paris), m.a.
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In a foreword published in 1900, but suppressed in 1924, Bergson explains that through the three articles, he wanted to study laughter, especially the laughter caused by the comic, and to determine the principal categories of comic situations, to determine the laws of the comic.
Henry Bergson’s Laughter is a collection of three essays. Bergson begins the work with a brief introduction in which he clarifies that his aim is not to define “comic” as a term, but rather...
Sep 5, 2023 · Last Updated September 5, 2023. The French-Jewish philosopher Henri Bergson, who was active in the late-nineteenth to mid-twentieth century, turned to the subject of “the comic” in an effort to...
actual act of laughter – but it also helps explain one of the most enigmatic and important passages in the book: the crossed carrefours that organizes and concludes the final section of the opening chapter (L24ff/R29ff). There Bergson acknowledges the difficulty of offering a definition of the comic.
Jul 7, 2020 · Bergson’s observations tell us where to find laughter, under which conditions it is possible for laughter to emerge, but they don’t tell us why we laugh. They do nonetheless provide us with important clues.
Abstract. Reviews the book, Laughter: An essay on the meaning of the comic by Henri Bergson (1913). In this stimulating little book Professor Bergson propounds his theory of the comic, which is shortly to the following effect.
