Laughter

Laughter An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic - Dover Books on Western Philosophy

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Publisher's Synopsis

This classic explores why people laugh and what laughter means. According to Bergson, laughter helps us retain our humanity during an age of mechanization. His belief in life as a vital impulse, indefinable by reason alone, informs his perception of comedy as the relief we experience upon distancing ourselves from the mechanistic.

Book information

ISBN: 9780486443805
Publisher: Dover Publications Inc.
Imprint: Dover Publications
Pub date:
DEWEY: 809.917
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 98
Weight: 126g
Height: 216mm
Width: 138mm
Spine width: 7mm