Juoko Teorijos Juok(Ingum)As: Pro Et Contra Henri Bergson
Derisiveness of the Theory of Laughter: pro et contra Henri Bergson
Author(s): Nida VasiliauskaitėSubject(s): Epistemology, Contemporary Philosophy
Published by: Visuomeninė organizacija »LOGOS«
Keywords: laughter; theory; rationality; power; social order; carnival;
Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the classical tractate “On Laughter” by Henry Bergson (1900) and, more precisely, with the problem that a critical analysis of the tractate reveals: is it possible to have a theory of laughter, is laughter susceptible to rational scrutiny, or what if the basic formal assumptions of classical essentialistic philosophy are the very ones that hinder us from understanding our experience of the phenomenon in question? The article shows that Bergson’s approach on laughter is inconsistent with his explicit aims and general intuitivism, context-blind and has very limited explicative scope. Finaly, in contrast, the article claims that laughter is better understood by defining it rather negatively.
Journal: LOGOS - A Journal of Religion, Philosophy, Comparative Cultural Studies and Art
- Issue Year: 2008
- Issue No: 55
- Page Range: 74-81
- Page Count: 8
- Language: Lithuanian
