Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic: Henri.
LAUGHTER: AN ESSAY ON THE MEANING OF THE COMIC Henri Bergson 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.Laughter, Henri Bergson’s profound essay on the nature and source of laughter, grows out of his concern with the nineteenth century mechanization of life. For Bergson, life is ever in flux.This article was published in The International Journal of Ethics (1890-1938), which is continued by Ethics (1938-present).
Henri-Louis Bergson (French:. In Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic, Bergson develops a theory not of laughter itself but of how laughter can be provoked (see his objection to Delage, published in the 23rd edition of the essay). He describes the process of laughter (refusing to give a conceptual definition which would not approach its reality), used in particular by comics and.Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of Comic by Henri Bergson. Presented by Auth o rama Public Domain Books. II. There may be something artificial in making a special category for the comic in words, since most of the varieties of the comic that we have examined so far were produced through the medium of language. We must make a distinction, however, between the comic EXPRESSED and the comic.
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