Laughter An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic

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Laughter An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic by Bergson, Henri; Brereton, Cloudesley; Rothwell, Fred, 9780486443805
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  • ISBN: 9780486443805 | 0486443809
  • Cover: Paperback
  • Copyright: 9/13/2005

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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.
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