An Essay on Laughter: Its Forms, Its Causes, Its Development, and Its Value (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

James Sully

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ISBN 10 : 1331619440 ISBN 13 : 9781331619444

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Discover the science and social power of laughter across ages and cultures.

This book examines how humor arises, how it shapes our lives, and how laughter evolves from playful moments in childhood to complex social forms in society. Drawing on observations from children, savages, and cultures around the world, it reveals why laughter matters for connection, progress, and morale.

This edition argues that laughter is more than a momentary spark. It charts its forms, causes, and development, linking personal delight to wider social functions. You’ll move from instant mirth to the thoughtful ways humor reflects culture, morality, and human progress.

• Learn how early laughter in children develops into adult humor and social understanding.
• Explore how laughter serves as a social tool among different groups, including savages and civilizations.
• See how humor interacts with emotion, power, custom, and moral judgments.
• Consider theories of laughter that tie personal feeling to larger cultural patterns.

Ideal for readers curious about the origins and impact of humor on human society.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Excerpt from An Essay on Laughter: Its Forms, Its Causes, Its Development, and Its Value

The present work is, I believe, the first attempt to treat on a considerable scale the whole subject of Laughter, under its various aspects, and in its connections with our serious activities and interests. As such, it will, I feel sure, lay itself open to the criticism that it lacks completeness, or at least, proportion. A further criticism to which, I feel equally sure, it will expose itself, is that it clearly reflects the peculiarities of the experience of the writer. The anticipation of this objection does not, however, disturb me. It seems to me to be not only inevitable, but desirable - at least at the present stage of our knowledge of the subject - that one who attempts to understand an impulse, of which the intensities and the forms appear to vary greatly among men, of which the workings are often subtle, and of which the significance is by no means obvious, should, while making full use of others' impressions, draw largely on his own experience.

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1331619440
• ISBN 13: 9781331619444
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 459
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