by Henri Bergson · ISBN 9782228907149
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In this essay, Henri Bergson analyzes the elements that provoke laughter to identify the humorous components that make us laugh. Bergson describes laughter as a social phenomenon with a specific purpose. Published in 1900, this book is Henri Bergson's most famous and explores the significance of the comic. This edition includes a text by Sándor Ferenczi comparing Bergson's ideas with Freud's on humor and the unconscious.
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.
