That analysis appears in a 1914 essay titled for, for 10 points, what phenomenon examined by Henri Bergson that uses clowns as an exemplary cause of it?
In Adorno's essay "The Culture Industry," he referred to this phenomenon as the "fraud practiced on happiness." Schopenhauer argued that this phenomenon "always signifies the sudden apprehension of an incongruity (**) between such a concept and the real object thought through it, and hence between what is abstract and perceptive." Aristotle contended that it comes from a feeling of superiority (*) and the "joy we have in observing the fact that we cannot be hurt by the evil at which we are indignant." In perhaps the most famous philosophical treatment of this phenomenon, it is associated with what is "typical and general," as opposed to art, which is "individual and particular," leading the author to conclude that this phenomenon is a purely social function that "turns its back upon art." That analysis appears in a 1914 essay titled for, for 10 points, what phenomenon examined by Henri Bergson that uses clowns as an exemplary cause of it?
In Adorno's essay "The Culture Industry," he referred to this phenomenon as the "fraud practiced on happiness."
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