The Essence of Comic and the Essence of Laughter

Authors

  • A.D. Koshelev

Keywords:

cognitive approach, comic, aggression, unconscious inference, Kant, Bergson, Lorenz

Abstract

The article provides a cognitive inquiry into the Comic contradiction based on the Helmholz “unconscious inference” concept, and compares various interpretations of the nature of Laughter by Immanuel Kant, Henry Bergson and Konrad Lorenz. Comic situation and Laughter created in it were considered as the most painless way to discharge of social aggression.

Author Biography

  • A.D. Koshelev

    кандидат физико-математических наук, главный редактор издательства “Языки славянских культур”

Issue

No. 9 (2013)

Section

Статьи

How to Cite

[1]
2022. The Essence of Comic and the Essence of Laughter. Voprosy Filosofii. 9 (Jan. 2022), 52–62.