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Henri Bergson1 audiobook with Academy Voices
Henri Bergson was a French philosopher who influenced both analytic and continental philosophy in the first half of the twentieth century.More about Henri Bergson →
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Why do we laugh? The French philosopher Henri Bergson looks closely at comedy and argues that we laugh when something living acts stiff and mechanical, like a man who slips on a banana peel or a person who keeps repeating the same habit.
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About this audiobook
Why do we laugh? The French philosopher Henri Bergson looks closely at comedy and argues that we laugh when something living acts stiff and mechanical, like a man who slips on a banana peel or a person who keeps repeating the same habit. Laughter, he says, is how society gently corrects such rigidity.
This essay asks about the meaning of humor itself, from clowns and puns to character and comedy on stage. Read by Luke Oldham, a little under four and a half hours.
For anyone curious about what makes things funny.
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Details
Length
4 hr 29 min
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Released
November 2025
Publisher
Academy Voices
Language
English
ISBN
9798295357459
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This edition of Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of a Comic by Henri Bergson is narrated by Luke Oldham.
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It runs 4 hr 29 min, unabridged, so you hear the complete text.
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