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  Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic (Dover Books on Western Philosophy) (Paperback) By (author) Henri Bergson, Translated by Cloudesley Brereton, Translated by Fred Rothwell

  

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  Short Description for LaughterThis 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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  • Publisher: Dover Publications Inc.
  • Published: 28 October 2005
  • Format: Paperback 98 pages
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  • Categories: Psychology: Emotions | Philosophy
  • ISBN 13: 9780486443805 ISBN 10: 0486443809
  • Sales rank: 567,539

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Full description for Laughter

• 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.