Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Wyndham Lewis (Afterword by), Henri Bergson, Simon Critchley (Introduction by)Series:Critical Century #1Publish date:3/10/2026Pages:160
Language:EnglishPublisher:ErisISBN-13:9781967751846ISBN-10:1967751846UPC:9781967751846Book Category:Philosophy, Humor, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Ethics & Moral Philosophy, TopicBook Topic:LanguageSize:7.72 x 4.92 x 0.39 inchesWeight:0.3594Product ID:SC5ETNHD45
Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic
Why do we laugh? What does comedy reveal about human nature, society, and the mind's strange elasticity?
In this classic 1900 essay, philosopher Henri Bergson anatomises the comic impulse with surgical clarity and lyrical wit. For Bergson, laughter is no mere reflex. It is a social gesture, a corrective, a way for life itself to defend its supple intelligence against rigidity and habit. From...Series: Critical Century #1
Language:EnglishPublisher:ErisISBN-13:9781967751846ISBN-10:1967751846UPC:9781967751846Book Category:Philosophy, Humor, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Ethics & Moral Philosophy, TopicBook Topic:LanguageSize:7.72 x 4.92 x 0.39 inchesWeight:0.3594Product ID:SC5ETNHD45
Henri Bergson was one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century, celebrated for his explorations of time, consciousness, and creative evolution. Born in Paris to a Polish-Jewish family, he taught at the Collège de France and became the first philosopher to win the Nobel Prize in Literature (1927). His major works--Time and Free Will, Matter and Memory, and Creative...
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