The book “Laughter” (1900) is the only truly aesthetic work of the great French philosopher A. Bergson. Addressing the vast area of the funny in life and the comic in art, he at the same time gives a deep analysis of the most important philosophical problems: the essence of man, the relationship between the individual and the social, the individual and the typical; the nature of artistic creativity and the specifics of aesthetic perception. He saw the key to solving the problem of the comic in the doctrine of the aesthetic that he developed. For specialist philosophers, estheticians, art historians, as well as readers interested in issues of the theory of art and the history of aesthetics.