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Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic by Henry Bergson; translation by Cloudesley Brereton, M.A. and Fred Rothwell is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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What does laughter mean? What common ground can we find between the grimace of a merry-andrew, 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, of slipping away an

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It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.

Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Henry Bergson; translation by Cloudesley Brereton, M.A. and Fred Rothwell
Publisher
Wildside Press, LLC
Published
2008
Language
EN
ISBN
9781434470799
Category
history
Subjects
Literary Fiction, History, Humanities
Rating
3.7 / 5 (533 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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