Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic

Synopsis

2014 reprint of original 1912 edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with optical recognition software. "laughter" is a collection of three essays by french philosopher henri bergson, first published in 1900. In a short introduction, bergson announces that he will try to define the comic, but he does not want to give a rigid definition of the word; he wants to deal with the comic as part of human life. His ambition is also to have a better knowledge of society, of the functioning of human imagination and of collective imagination, but also of art and life.