Good Entertainment: A Deconstruction of the Western Passion Narrative

by Byung-Chul Han

Book Overview

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"