Good Entertainment
Han, Byung-Chul / West, Adrian Nathan
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 tra...