Henri Bergson's Comedy Theories In Modern Elucidation

In the psychology change of the West of the 20th centuries, Henri Bergson is the most important philosopher, however he has already been almost forgotten in modern philosophyfield. This paper is divided into four parts. We are trying to establish the structure and plentiful implications of the Bergson's comedic theories in the frame of his philosophy and aesthetiC theories. While all these theories should be explained in the concept of modern society. At last, we can pay attention to his, aesthetic ideal beyond the dramatic conceptions and we hope to give his aesthetic theories a fixed position in general.As we all know, the comedy is one of the most important categories in the western esthetics, but, under the dual influence of the hero doctrine tendency of axiology and the dualistic opposition thinking in the western metaphysics tradition, it is just the setoff of "tragedy", and in a very long time, it can need "tragedy" category to define. Only expect after the 19th centuries, the comedy concept just starts being subjected to a value more and more, but the comedy theories of Bergson then didn't acquire widespread approbation, he and his theories still was placed in the position of the edge to a large extent. However, weakened consumedly to taste advantage sublime along with the rise of the public culture that the development of the modern merchandise society bring, the lofty imperfection reflected on the decline of the tragedy art form from the side again. Whether this symbolizes comedy ages approaching or not, we temporarily can't descend a hard conclusion, but from analyzing and researching comedy theories of Bergson, we can discover some things worth considering by uses from it. Bergson makes a thorough analysis to the comedy produce——"smile" and "farcicality" from the point of social activities and mental idea and etc. He thinks that leading a life to machine appearance is the basic reason of "smile" or "farcicality"——the purpose of "smile" is rectification, and as a the kind of social means it still has the function in castigation, "farcicality" is attributed to man, who lacks go-aheadism is similar to things and it can constituted the main factor comedy result. So, in Bergson's view, the essence of comedic taste can comprehend a consciousness which the true estate of life falls into mechanize appearance in the space by chance. But to overcome this kind of model is a problem that mankind has to resolve while facing a modern social predicament.The first part of this text is mainly to analyzes the epistemology of the philosophy change direction in the 20th centuries, define the position of Bergson' s philosophy in this kind of changing direction, and emphasize to elaborate the instauration of time concept, which outruns traditional philosophy epistemological. But time needs intuition to realize, so the intuition needs to be define in three ways: the descriptive definitions; the corpus ego mental state elucidation and mysterious doctrine character. That can summarize as a kind of intuitional epistemology that can experience an ego life' s rhyme personally.The second part mainly discusses the esthetics thoughts of Bergson in the view of modern knowledge typology. Firstly, we analyzes the concept of modernity and Bergson' s comprehension of the modernity. Secondly, from the knowledge typology of virtuous traditional dissimilarity, we build up the knowledge the of the comprehending Bergson' s esthetics background, and then concretely analyze the tragedy, the tragicomedy——the comedy of Bergson, and explain the core concept of his esthetics theories: form and pure form.The third part then concretes to regard the comedy esthetics theories of Bergson, We analyze mulriple connotations of Bergson' s comedic concept and the basic frame of his comedy esthetics in the background of western esthetic consciousness. Finally, we compare Bergson' s comedic concept with the comedic concept of Marks, the concept of humor of Freud, and the concept of absurd theatre.In the forth part, we explicate Bergson' s esthetic ideal which oversteps the comedic concept in detail, and point out Bergson' s esthetic ideal is the pure mysterious doctrine and tragedy poem, which appear in the explanation of what is a poet.