Henri Bergson: Laughter | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9788027285167 | Laughter | Henri Bergson | Taschenbuch | Englisch | Good Press

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In Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic, Henri Bergson offers a compact yet penetrating inquiry into why human beings laugh and what comedy reveals about social life. First published in 1900, the work treats laughter not as mere amusement but as a philosophical phenomenon: a corrective response to rigidity, automatism, and the mechanical encrusted upon the living. Written in lucid, aphoristic prose, it stands at the intersection of aesthetics, psychology, and social theory, illuminating comedy from farce to character drama. Bergson, one of the most influential French philosophers of the early twentieth century, was already developing his broader philosophy of duration, vitality, and creative evolution. His suspicion of mechanistic accounts of life informs this essay throughout. As a thinker attentive to consciousness, habit, and social adaptation, Bergson was especially equipped to interpret the comic as a sign of human freedom threatened by inflexibility. This book is recommended for readers of philosophy, literary criticism, theatre, and cultural history. Concise but richly suggestive, Laughter rewards both casual readers curious about humor and scholars seeking a foundational theory of comedy's moral and social function.

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Genre:	Philosophie
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9788027285167
ISBN-10:	802728516X
Sprache:	Englisch
Autor:	Bergson, Henri
Übersetzung:	Rothwell, Fred Brereton, Cloudesley
Hersteller:	Good Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	OK Publishing s.r.o., 20a, Kosíre, Zahradníckova 1220, ?-150 00 Prague, obrody@gmail.com
Maße:	229 x 152 x 4 mm
Von/Mit:	Henri Bergson
Gewicht:	0,114 kg