Good Entertainment: A Deconstruction of the Western Passion Narrative

(Part of the Untimely Meditations Series)

by Byung-Chul Han

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A philosopher considers entertainment, in all its totalizing variety--infotainment, edutainment, servotainment--and traces the notion through Kant, Zen Buddhism, Heidegger, Kafka, and Rauschenberg.

In Good Entertainment, Byung-Chul Han examines the notion of entertainment--its contemporary ubiquity, and its philosophical genealogy. Entertainment today, in all its totalizing variety, has an apparently infinite capacity for incorporation:...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0262537508

ISBN13:9780262537506

Release Date:October 2019

Publisher:MIT Press

Length:144 Pages

Weight:0.32 lbs.

Dimensions:0.5" x 4.5" x 6.8"

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