{"product_id":"9780982530931","title":"Laughter","description":"----Henri Bergson is the author of numerous works including\u003cbr\u003eMatter and Memory, Creative Evolution and Time and Free Will.\u003cbr\u003eHis work has been influential for many thinkers such as Walter\u003cbr\u003eBenjamin, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Gilles Deleuze.\u003cp\u003e----Drew Burk is a graduate and technical director at the European\u003cbr\u003eGraduate School. He is the translator of such philosophers as\u003cbr\u003eJean Baudrillard, Jacques Derrida and Paul Virilio.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e----What does laughter mean? What is the fundamental element of the laughable? What common ground can be found between the grimace of a clown, a play on words, a similar situation in a burlesque and a scene of high comedy? What method of distillation will invariably yield us the same essence from which so many different products borrow either their obtrusive odor or their delicate perfume? The greatest of thinkers, from Aristotle on down,\u003cbr\u003ehave tackled this tiny problem, which has a knack of baffling every effort, of slipping away, escaping only to pop up again, as a lively challenge to philosophical speculation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atropos Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47029572698352,"sku":"9780982530931","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780982530931_p0.jpg?v=1763878722","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780982530931","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}