Laughter / Dreams / The Meaning of the War

by Henri Bergson

Book Overview

In Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic (first published in 1900), Henri Bergson develops a theory not of laughter itself, but of how laughter can be provoked. He describes the process of laughter (refusing to give a conceptual definition which would not approach its reality), used in particular by comics and clowns, as caricature of the mechanistic nature of humans (habits, automatic acts, etc.), as one of the two tendencies of life...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1515423948
• ISBN13: 9781515423942
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Gray Rabbit Publishing
• Length: 156 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"