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100 1 _aBergson, Henri,
_d1859-1941
240 1 3 _aLe rire. English
245 1 0 _aLaughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2003
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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500 _aWikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laughter_(book)
500 _aTranslation of: Le rire.
500 _aRelease date is 2003-08-01
508 _aProduced by Steve Harris, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. HTML version by Al Haines.
520 _a"Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic" by Henri Bergson is a collection of three essays first published in 1900. This groundbreaking philosophical work explores why humans laugh and what makes things funny. Bergson examines laughter as a distinctly human and social phenomenon, arguing that comedy arises from rigidity interrupting life's natural flexibility. He investigates how laughter serves as a moral corrective, forcing people to recognize their vices and conform to social norms. Through analyzing comic situations, movements, and characters, Bergson develops a scientific method for understanding the laws governing humor. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _nOriginal publication data not identified
653 _aComedy
653 _aPhilosophy, French
653 _aLaughter
700 1 _aBrereton, Cloudesley,
_d1863-1937
700 1 _aRothwell, Fred,
_d1869-1934
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4352
999 _c46398
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