Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of Comic - Couverture souple

Bergson, Henri

 
9781434470799: Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of Comic
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ISBN 10 : 1434470792 ISBN 13 : 9781434470799
Editeur : Wildside Press, 2008

Synopsis

What does laughter mean? What common ground can we find between the grimace of a merry-andrew, a play upon words, an equivocal situation in a burlesque and a scene of high comedy? What method of distillation will yield us invariably the same essence from which so many different products borrow either their obtrusive odour or their delicate perfume? The greatest of thinkers, from Aristotle downwards, have tackled this little problem, which has a knack of baffling every effort, of slipping away and escaping only to bob up again, a pert challenge flung at philosophic speculation. Our excuse for attacking the problem in our turn must lie in the fact that we shall not aim at imprisoning the comic spirit within a definition. We regard it, above all, as a living thing. However trivial it may be, we shall treat it with the respect due to life. We shall confine ourselves to watching it grow and expand.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

What does laughter mean? What common ground can we find between the grimace of a merry-andrew, a play upon words, an equivocal situation in a burlesque and a scene of high comedy? What method of distillation will yield us invariably the same essence from which so many different products borrow either their obtrusive odour or their delicate perfume? The greatest of thinkers, from Aristotle downwards, have tackled this little problem, which has a knack of baffling every effort, of slipping away and escaping only to bob up again, a pert challenge flung at philosophic speculation. Our excuse for attacking the problem in our turn must lie in the fact that we shall not aim at imprisoning the comic spirit within a definition. We regard it, above all, as a living thing. However trivial it may be, we shall treat it with the respect due to life. We shall confine ourselves to watching it grow and expand.

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Éditeur
Wildside Press
Date d'édition
2008
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1434470792
ISBN 13 
9781434470799
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
96
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9781604501063: Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic

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ISBN 10 :  1604501065 ISBN 13 :  9781604501063
Editeur : ARC Manor, 2008
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