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Entertainment as a sociocultural phenomenon: historical and cultural analysis

The article deals with the phenomenon of Entertainment in the historic and cultural dimensions. Entire image-concept of Entertainment in traditional, universalistic-modern, postmodern, transcultural discourses is determined. Entertainment is a specific existential concept, it is a fundamental principle of philosophical knowledge revealing a person's relations with oneself and other people. Since ancient times, the phenomenon of Entertainment has basically been one of the ways of human existence, an element through which a person understands his place in the world and his relationship with other people. The gods create entertainment in Greek mythology. The phenomenon of entertainment is a divine way to purify the soul; the phenomenon of entertainment is a way to honor the gods; the phenomenon of entertainment is a way of forming social and political thought with the help of theater, a social utopia, a way of mastering the knowledge necessary for a certain professional activity. In the Middle Ages, the Entertainment is a form of protest against the church's monopoly on culture and art. The article also considers the phenomenon of entertainment in the days of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment. In the context of the socio-cultural life of the 19th century, the phenomenon of Entertainment is considered in the concepts of J. Ruskin, J. Maritain, A. Bergson, F. Nietzsche.