by Henri Bergson · Presses Universitaires de France - PUF · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782130415442
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«Le rire» is the philosophical essay on the comic by Henri Bergson, published by Presses Universitaires de France in paperback (157 pages, in French).
Bergson starts from everyday questions such as why we laugh at a fall or a play on words and seeks the common spring of all forms of comedy. With examples from daily life and numerous literary references, he proposes that the comic arises from the mechanical rigidity introduced into the living, from an interference between two incompatible series. Laughter thus appears as a social gesture that corrects behavior, though it also expresses the vital impulse of human beings.
Work originally published in 1900; this edition is from 1981.
For readers interested in philosophy, aesthetics and the analysis of humor.
Henri-Louis Bergson was a French philosopher who was influential in the traditions of analytic philosophy and continental philosophy, especially during the first half of the 20th century until the Second World War, but also after 1966 when Gilles Deleuze published Le Bergsonisme.
