Libro Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic: Large Print De Henri Bergson

portada Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic: Large Print

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Independently Published

Autor

Henri Bergson

Año

2020

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9781671176829

Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic: Large Print

Henri Bergson (Autor) · Independently Published · Tapa Blanda

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What does laughter mean? What is the basal element in the laughable? What common ground can we find between the grimace of a merryandrew, 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...Henri-Louis Bergson was a French-Jewish philosopher who was influential in the tradition of continental philosophy, especially during the first half of the 20th century until the Second World War