Good Entertainment: A Deconstruction of the Western Passion Narrative - Paperback
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Availability:Out of StockContributor:Byung-Chul Han, Adrian Nathan West (Translator)Series:Untimely Meditations #18Publish date:2019-10-08Pages:144
Language:EnglishPublisher:MIT PressISBN-13:9780262537506ISBN-10:262537508UPC:9780262537506Book Category:PhilosophyBook Subcategory:AestheticsSize:6.80 x 4.50 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.3505Product ID:SC5W01X9W0
Good Entertainment: A Deconstruction of the Western Passion Narrative
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...
Series: Untimely Meditations #18
Language:EnglishPublisher:MIT PressISBN-13:9780262537506ISBN-10:262537508UPC:9780262537506Book Category:PhilosophyBook Subcategory:AestheticsSize:6.80 x 4.50 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.3505Product ID:SC5W01X9W0
Byung-Chul Han, born in Seoul, is Professor of Philosophy and Cultural Studies at the Universität der Künste Berlin (UdK). One of the most widely read philosophers in Europe, he is the author of more than twenty books, including including four previous volumes in the MIT Press Untimely Meditations series, In the Swarm: Digital Prospects, The Agony of Eros, Shanzhai: Deconstruction in Chinese, ...
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