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Henri Bergson, in full Henri-Louis Bergson, (born Oct. 18, 1859, Paris, France—died Jan. 4, 1941, Paris), French philosopher, the first to elaborate what came to be called a process philosophy, which rejected static values in favour of values of motion, change, and evolution.He was also a master literary stylist, of both academic and popular appeal, and was awarded the Nobel Prize for.

LAUGHTER: AN ESSAY ON THE MEANING OF THE COMIC Henri Bergson Bergson's thinking typifies a peculiarly Gallic tendency to rationalize the apparently ephemeral and subjective (in this case, humor), discussing it in exquisitely rarefied language in order to assert that which defies common sense (a funny hat is not funny, laughter expresses no emotion, no one laughs alone) but partakes nonetheless.

Laughter: an Essay on the Meaning of the Comic by Bergson is a book that describes his theory as well as what Anthropocene laughter is. The Birds an Aristophanes’ play translated by Jeffrey Henderson is quested to cause Anthropocene laughter by Bergson’s theory. The Birds does not cause Anthropocene laughter for it shows a great deal of Earth’s current problems; also does not cause.

Laughter, Henri Bergson’s profound essay on the nature and source of laughter, grows out of his concern with the nineteenth century mechanization of life. For Bergson, life is ever in flux.

Table of contents. Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations and Editions Used Introduction: Thinking Beyond the Human Condition 1. An Introduction to Bergson 2. A Melancholy Science: Bergson on Lucretius 3. Bergson on Time, Freedom, and the Self 4. Bergson on Memory 5. Bergson's Reformation of Philosophy in Creative Evolution 6. Bergson and Ethics 7. Bergson and Nietzsche on Religion: Critique.

In Time and Free Will, written as his doctoral thesis, Bergson tries to dispel the arguments against free will. These arguments, he shows, come from a confusion of different ideas of time. Physicists and mathematicians conceive of time as a measurable construct much like the spatial dimensions. But in human experience, life is perceived as a continuous and unmeasurable flow rather than as a.

Henri Bergson, Time and Free Will: An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness, translated by F.L. Pogson, M.A. London: George Allen and Unwin (1910). Henri Bergson. Creative Evolution, translated by Arthur Mitchell, Ph.D. New York: Henry Holt and Company (1911). Site Navigation Mead Project Inventory.

A notable feature of Gilles Deleuze's philosophy is the way in which it extensively draws on the ideas of Bergson. Deleuze first began to write on Bergson in the 1950s, a time when Bergson's intellectual ascendancy in Europe and even America had well and truly fallen into decline.

Introduction. Henri Bergson was one of the last philosophers belonging to the school of thinkers known as the French Spiritualists. His philosophy was hugely influential, both positively and negatively, on many prominent mid- to late-20th century French philosophers, including Jean-Paul Sartre, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Gaston Bachelard, Georges Canguilhem, and Gilles Deleuze.

Nineteenth century French philosopher Henri Bergson emphasized the importance of attention, learning, humour and joy for life. This short book, part of the Life Lessons series from The School of Life, takes Bergson’s work and highlights his ideas most relevant to solving ordinary everyday dilemmas.Michael Foley shows himself to be a highly informed and adept reader of Bergson’s writings.

Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of Comic by Henri Bergson. Presented by Auth o rama Public Domain Books. I. The first point to which attention should be called is that the comic does not exist outside the pale of what is strictly HUMAN. A landscape may be beautiful, charming and sublime, or insignificant and ugly; it will never be laughable. You may laugh at an animal, but only because you.