Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic (Dover Books on Western Philosophy)
معرفی کتاب «Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic (Dover Books on Western Philosophy)» نوشتهٔ Bergson, Henri; Brereton, Cloudesley; Rothwell, Fred,Cloudesley Brereton,Fred Rothwell، منتشرشده توسط نشر Dover Publications : Made available through hoopla در سال 2013. این کتاب در فرمت epub، زبان انگلیسی ارائه شده است.
In this great philosophical essay, Henri Bergson explores why people laugh and what laughter means. Written at the turn of the twentieth century, Laughter explores what it is in language that makes a joke funny and what it is in us that makes us laugh. One of the functions of humor, according to Bergson, is to help us retain our humanity during an age of mechanization. Like other philosophers, novelists, poets, and humorists of his era, Bergson was concerned with the duality of man and machine. His belief in life as a vital impulse, indefinable by reason alone, informs his perception of comedy as the relief we experience upon distancing ourselves from the mechanistic and materialistic. "A situation is always comic," Bergson notes, "if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which are absolutely independent of each other, and if it can be interpreted in two quite different meanings." The philosopher's thought-provoking insights (e.g., "It seems that laughter needs an echo. Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.") keep this work ever-relevant as a thesis on the principles of humor.;Title Page; Copyright Page; TRANSLATORS' PREFACE; Table of Contents; CHAPTER I -- THE COMIC IN GENERAL-THE COMIC ELEMENT IN FORMS AND MOVEMENTS-EXPANSIVE FORCE OF THE COMIC; I; II; III; IV; V; CHAPTER II -- THE COMIC ELEMENT IN SITUATIONS AND THE COMIC ELEMENT IN WORDS; I; II; CHAPTER III -- THE COMIC IN CHARACTER; I; II; III; IV; V. En este ensayo Henri Bergson analiza las diversas cosas que provocan la risa con el fin de determinar los elementos humorísticos que nos hacen reí. Bergson describe la risa como un ser vivo que tiene un objetivo en gran parte social. Henri Bergson (1859-1941) fue el primer gran filósofo del siglo XX. Su originalísima obra, a menudo situada entre el análisis psicológico, la sociología, la filosofía y las ciencias naturales, sirvió para superar el positivismo y abrir al nuevo siglo muchas de las vías en adelante tan transitadas. Una ocasión idónea para probar la superioridad de esta nueva filosofía fue aplicarla al entonces popular problema de la comicidad, misterio «que se yergue en impertinente desafío a la especulación filosófica». Escrito en el estilo que le valdría el Premio Nobel de Literatura -entretenido pero de gran profundidad, extremadamente claro y nada abstruso, sin pretensiones pero muy lírico por momentos-, el texto de *La risa*" fue aclamado y se instituyó como gran matriz cultural del primer tercio del siglo pasado.
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