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"Laughter" a book by Bergson

Posted by: Behnam Jafari

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Everyone\nI hope you all are fine and keep going through our critical thinking journey. I recently found a remarkable book by a French philosopher \" Henri Bergson\" . The book is \" Laughter\" and it goes deeper in the concept and logic of comic. It seems very interesting since it presents the functions of comic in the social and individual contexts. I am sharing some quotes from that book. \nIf anyone was interested to have access to its online version please let me know. \n\nThank you and please share with me if you have also similar interesting books in this topic. \n\nRegards,\nBehnam\n--------------------------------------\n“It is no easy matter to define the point at which the anxiety to become modest may be distinguished from the dread of becoming ridiculous. But surely, at the outset, this dread and this anxiety are one and the same thing. A complete investigation into the illusions of vanity, and into the ridicule that clings to them, would cast a strange light upon the whole theory of laughter. We should find laughter performing, with mathematical regularity, one of its main functions—that of bringing back to complete self-consciousness a certain self-admiration which is almost automatic, and thus obtaining the greatest possible sociability of characters. We should see that vanity, though it is a natural product of social life, is an inconvenience to society, just as certain slight poisons, continually secreted by the human organism, would destroy it in the long run, if they were not neutralized by other secretions. Laughter is unceasingly doing work of this kind. In this respect, it might be said that the specific remedy for vanity is laughter, and that the one failing that is essentially laughable is vanity.”\n\n“Laughter is, above all, a corrective. Being intended to humiliate, it must make a painful impression on the person against whom it is directed. By laughter, society avenges itself for the liberties taken with it. It would fail in its object if it bore the stamp of sympathy or kindness.”\n\n\nExcerpt From\nLaughter\nBy: Henri Bergson\n\n"}]}


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