Entertaining death

This book is dedicated to Tanatopathy - the fascinity of our society by death. Thirty years ago, Halloween did not compete with Merry Christmas, “Black Tourism” was not a rapidly developing industry, the “gorgeous corpse” did not dictate the style of cheap fashion, the “green funeral” seemed an eccentric choice of loners, and vampires, zombies, cannibals and serial killers were not loved Heroes of the public from small to great.
Having become fun, the sight of virtual violent death changes our ideas about a person, his place among other living beings and the value of human life, as well as about whether it is possible to eat a person for food.
The book proposes a new approach for the first time considering the revolution in rites and practices related to death, and the evolution of the image of violence in novels and cinema as a single cultural process. A long history of criticism of humanism and anthropocentrism with French theory, the movement of the fight for animal rights, transgumanism and post -humanism allows you to trace the stages of turning anti -humanism into a running product of the entertainment industry