by Henri Bergson · France Loisirs / Presses Universitaires de France / Denoël · tapa dura · ISBN 9782724261103
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«Le rire» is the philosophical essay by Henri Bergson, published by France Loisirs in hardcover (134 pages, in French).
In this 1900 essay, Bergson explores why we laugh and what the comic means. He argues that laughter has a social function: it corrects what is rigid or mechanical in behavior and reinforces group cohesion. Across three studies, he examines comedy in situations, language and character, with his famous idea of «the mechanical encrusted on the living».
This 1990 French edition includes a preface by Sempé and some black-and-white illustrations.
Aimed at readers of philosophy and humor theory who wish to discover a classic of the French essay.
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.
