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Laughter: An Essay On The Meaning of The Comic

Laughter: An Essay On The Meaning of The Comic

Bergson, Henri

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ISBN10: 1493792059
ISBN13: 9781493792054
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Nov 17 2013
Pages: 136
Weight: 0.56
Height: 0.29 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
Laughter An Essay on The Meaning of the Comic By Henri Bergson Bergson begins to note three facts on the comic: 1, the comic is strictly a human phenomenon. A landscape cannot be a source of laughter, and when humans make fun of animals, it is often because they recognize some human behaviour in them. Man is not only a being that can laugh, but also a being that is a source of laughter. 2, laughter requires an indifference, a detachment from sensibility and emotion: it is more difficult to laugh when one is fully aware of the seriousness of a situation. 3, it is difficult to laugh alone, it is easier to laugh collectively. One who is excluded from a group of people does not laugh with them, there is often a complicity in laughter. Thus the comic is not a mere pleasure of the intellect, it is a human and social activity, it has a social meaning.

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