Good Entertainment
A Deconstruction of the Western Passion Narrative
$33.34
- Paperback
144 pages
- Release Date
8 October 2019
Summary
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: infotainment, edutainment, servotainment, confrontainment. Entertainment is held up as a new paradigm, even a new credo for being—and yet, in the West, it has had inescapably negative connotations.
Han traces Western ideas of entertainment…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262537506 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262537508 |
| Author: | Byung-Chul Han, Adrian Nathan West |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 144 |
| Release Date: | 8 October 2019 |
| Weight: | 134g |
| Dimensions: | 11mm x 114mm x 178mm |
| Series: | Untimely Meditations |
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Byung-Chul Han
Byung-Chul Han is Professor of Philosophy and Cultural Studies at the Universität der Künste Berlin (UdK). He is the author of more than twenty books, including four previous volumes in the MIT Press Untimely Meditations series: In the Swarm: Digital Prospects, The Agony of Eros, Shanzhai: Deconstruction in Chinese, and Topology of Violence.
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