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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Why do we laugh What does comedy reveal about human nature, society, and the mind's strange elasticity In this classic 1900 essay, philosopher Henri Bergson anatomises the comic impulse with surgical clarity and lyrical wit. For Bergson, laughter is no mere reflex. It is a social gesture, a corrective, a way for life itself to defend its supple intelligence against rigidity and habit. From pratfalls to irony, from the mechanical in the living to the absurd in the everyday, his argument ranges effortlessly between metaphysics and vaudeville. With a new introduction by Simon Critchley, Laughter emerges as both a foundational text in aesthetics and a startlingly modern theory of humour--anticipating Freud, Chaplin, and memes alike. An appended essay by Wyndham Lewis offers a bracing counterpoint: a modernist's rejoinder to Bergson's genial philosophy. Together they trace the fault-lines between laughter and cruelty, vitality and violence, thought and form. A century on, Bergson's question still bites: what makes us laugh--and why does it matter.…

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Laughter | An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic | Henri Bergson | Taschenbuch | Critical Century | Einband - flex.(Paperback) | Englisch | 2026 | ERIS | EAN 9781967751846 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu. …