Good Entertainment Han Byung-Chul Professor Universitat der Kunste Berlin
Good Entertainment Han Byung-Chul Professor Universitat der Kunste Berlin A philosopher considers entertainment, in all its totalizing variety--infotainment, edutainment, servotainment--and traces…
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Good Entertainment Han Byung-Chul Professor Universitat der Kunste Berlin
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 is held up as a new paradigm, even a new credo for being--and yet, in the West, it has had inescapably negative connotations. Entertainment today, in all its totalizing variety, has an apparently infinite capacity for incorporation: infotainment, edutainment, servotainment, confrontainment.
Han traces Western ideas of entertainment, considering, among other things, the scandal that arose from the first performance of Bach's Saint Matthew's Passion (deemed too beautiful, not serious enough); Kant's idea of morality as duty
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