- Title : Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic (Dover Books on Western Philosophy)
- Author : Henri Bergson
- Rating : 4.59 (246 Vote)
- Publish : 2015-5-29
- Format : Paperback
- Pages : 112 Pages
- Asin : 0486443809
- Language : English
Bergson won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1927. As I was reading the book I kept thinking of people that should read it as well- it’s a real gem for recent graduates who often have no idea how to go about job hunting.For me personally it was also a big eye-opener. Although this story is from the Bible, I myself am not a Christian but still enjoyed a
Bergson won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1927.
As I was reading the book I kept thinking of people that should read it as well- it’s a real gem for recent graduates who often have no idea how to go about job hunting.For me personally it was also a big eye-opener. Although this story is from the Bible, I myself am not a Christian but still enjoyed and appreciated this gorgeous work of art. This book is perfect to what I want. Certainly, no (funny) comedian will ever attempt to publicly disclose the nature of laughter, but don't suppose that there aren't many famous comedians out there today who are familiar with this essay. She now 'swears' by the book and it really helped.My acid reflux has been long term and while the book is good, my results haven't matched the wife's.The book makes you responsible for your results. The Council was successful in instituting the inspection agencies and economic sanctions in the case of Iraq. I think someone must have paid for them because they did not match that worthlesOur laughter is always the laughter of a group.") keep this work ever-relevant as a thesis on the principles of humor.. Like other philosophers, novelists, poets, and humorists of his era, Bergson was concerned with the duality of man and machine. "A situation is always comic," Bergson notes, "if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which are absolutely independent of each other, and if it can be interpreted in two quite different meanings." The philosopher's thought-provoking insights (e.g., "It seems that laughter needs an echo. 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 and materialistic. Written at the turn of the twentieth century, Laughter explores what it is in language that makes a joke funny and what it is in us that makes us laugh.One of the functions of humor, according to Bergson, is to help us retain our humanity during an age of mechanization. In this great philosophical essay, Henri Bergson explores why people laugh and what laughter meansBergson recaps: "Rigidity is the comic, and laughter is its corrective." Bergson's thinking typifies a peculiarly Gallic tendency to rationalize the apparently ephemeral and subjective (in this case, humor), discussing it in exquisitely rarefied language in order to assert that which defies common sense (a funny hat is not funny, laughter expresses no emotion, no one laughs alone) but partakes nonetheless of a logical inevitability. Clem Kadiddlehopper wore a funny hat. And sometimes, when you're by yourself, you just start giggling for no reason. --Robert Burns Neveldine. We chuckle at Lucy attempting to wrap the bonbons speeding by on a candy-factory conveyor belt because she's stuck in one place, performing the same task over and over, and failing; we hope that in similar situations we could be more flexible. As Henri Bergson, proto-existentialist French philosopher and author of Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic, would say, you can stop laughing now.
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