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Language: English
Published by Dover Publications, 2005
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- Title
- Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic
- Author
- Bergson, Henri
- Publisher
- Dover Publications
- Publication year
- 2005
- Condition
- Fair
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0486443809
- ISBN 13
- 9780486443805
- Item weight
- 0.57 pounds
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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About the Author
Bergson won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1927.
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