Laughter (essay)

'''Bergson, Henri. "Laughter."''' Ca. 1900. Available in various trans. Trans. by Presses Universitaires de France available in Comedy. Wylie Sypher, ed. Garden City, New York: Anchor-Doubleday, 1956.

The cause of laughter is the superimposition of the mechanical upon the organic, more specifically, upon the human. See for a simple introduction to HB on "vitalism" (one anthithesis to "mechanism"). See "Mechanism" and "Vitalism" under this Category, and the Wikipedia article on Vitalism.