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Bergson's thinking typifies a peculiarly Gallic tendency to rationalize the apparently ephemeral and subjective (in this case, humor), discussing it in exquisitely rarefied language in order to assert that which defies common sense (a funny hat is not funny, laughter expresses no emotion, no one laughs alone) but partakes nonetheless of a logical inevitability. Laughter, first published in ...
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Aug 1, 2003 · Title. Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic. Note. Translation of: Le rire. Credits. Produced by Steve Harris, Charles Franks and the Online. Distributed Proofreading Team.
- Bergson, Henri, 1859-1941
- Le rire. English
- Rothwell, Fred, 1869-1934
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Laughter : an Essay on the Meaning of the Comic by Bergson, Henri, 1859-1941 - Free download as Text File (.txt), PDF File (.pdf) or read online for free. The Project Gutenberg Etext of Laughter: by Henri Bergson first posted on January 14, 2002.
About This Book. In this great philosophical essay, Henri Bergson explores why people laugh and what laughter means. Written at the turn of the twentieth century, Laughter explores what it is in language that makes a joke funny and what it is in us that makes us laugh. One of the functions of humor, according to Bergson, is to help us retain ...
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HENRI BERGSON MEMBER OF THE INSTITUTE ... laughter itself as a strange, isolated pheno- menon, without any bearing on the rest of human activity. Hence those ...
