Laughter

"Laughter" is a profound philosophical inquiry into the nature of the comic and the mechanics of human humor. Written by the influential philosopher Henri Bergson, this work seeks to answer the fundamental question: why do we laugh? Bergson explores the idea that laughter serves as a social gesture intended to correct "mechanical inelasticity" in human behavior. He argues that we find things funny when we perceive "something mechanical encrusted on the living"-when a person acts with the ri...