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Reflections On Laughing

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 April 2024

Jean Fourastié
Jean Fourastié*
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Institut de France
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The general theme of this reflection on laughing is that the place of laughter in everyday life has been reduced a great deal in Western societies since the beginning of the century and that this fact could have major consequences for the mental equilibrium of individuals and for the future of our civilizations. Moreover, philosophy and human sciences seem to have a certain responsibility for this disenchantment of our contemporaries with laughing.

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Research Article
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Diogenes , Volume 31 , Issue 121 , March 1983 , pp. 126 - 141
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Copyright © 1983 Fédération Internationale des Sociétés de Philosophie / International Federation of Philosophical Societies (FISP)

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