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Absence - On the Culture and Philosophy of the Far East by Byung-Chul Han
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Western thinking has long been dominated by essence, by a preoccupation with that which dwells in itself and delimits itself from the other. By contrast, Far Eastern thought is centred not on essence but on absence. The fundamental topos of Far Eastern thinking is not being but 'the way' (dao), which ...Show more
Non-Things: Upheaval in the Lifeworld by Byung-Chul Han; Daniel Steuer (Translator)
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
We no longer inhabit earth and dwell under the sky: these are being replaced by Google Earth and the Cloud. The terrestrial order is giving way to a digital order, the world of things is being replaced by a world of non-things - a constantly expanding 'infosphere' of information and communication which ...Show more
Psychopolitics Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power by Byung-Chul Han
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Exploring how neoliberalism has discovered the productive force of the psycheByung-Chul Han, a star of German philosophy, continues his passionate critique of neoliberalism, trenchantly describing a regime of technological domination that, in contrast to Foucault's biopower, has discovered the productiv ...Show more
Saving Beauty by Byung-Chul Han
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Beauty today is a paradox. The cult of beauty is ubiquitous but it has lost its transcendence and become little more than an aspect of consumerism, the aesthetic dimension of capitalism. The sublime and unsettling aspects of beauty have given way to corporeal pleasures and 'likes', resulting in a kind o ...Show more
The Agony of Eros by Byung-Chul Han
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Untimely Meditations
Byung-Chul Han is one of the most widely read philosophers in Europe today, a member of the new generation of German thinkers that includes Markus Gabriel and Armen Avanessian. In The Agony of Eros, a bestseller in Germany, Han considers the threat to love and desire in today's society. For Han, love re ...Show more
The Burnout Society by Byung-Chul Han
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Our competitive, service-oriented societies are taking a toll on the late-modern individual. Rather than improving life, multitasking, "user-friendly" technology, and the culture of convenience are producing disorders that range from depression to attention deficit disorder to borderline personality dis ...Show more
The Crisis of Narration by Byung-Chul Han
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Narratives produce the ties that bind us. They create community, eliminate contingency and anchor us in being. And yet in our contemporary information society, where everything has become arbitrary and random, storytelling shouts out loudly but narratives no longer have their binding force. Wher ...Show more
The Disappearance of Rituals - A Topology of the Present by Byung-Chul Han; Daniel Steuer (Translator)
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Untrammelled neoliberalism and the inexorable force of production have produced a 21st century crisis of community: a narcissistic cult of authenticity and mass turning-inward are among the pathologies engendered by it. We are individuals afloat in an atomised society, where the loss of the symbolic str ...Show more
The Expulsion of the Other - Society, Perception and Communication Today by Byung-Chul Han; Wieland Hoban (Translator)
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
The days of the Other are over in this age of excessive communication, information and consumption. What used to be the Other, be it as friend, as Eros or as hell, is now indistinguishable from the self in our narcissistic desire to assimilate everything and everyone until there are no boundaries left. ...Show more
The Philosophy of Zen Buddhism by Byung-Chul Han; Daniel Steuer (Translator)
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Zen Buddhism is a form of Mah y na Buddhism that originated in China and is strongly focused on meditation. It is characteristically sceptical towards language and distrustful of conceptual thought, which explains why Zen Buddhist sayings are so enigmatic and succinct. But despite Zen Buddhism's hosti ...Show more
The Scent of Time: A Philosophical Essay on the Art of Lingering by Byung-Chul Han
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
In his philosophical reflections on the art of lingering, acclaimed cultural theorist Byung-Chul Han argues that the value we attach today to the vita activa is producing a crisis in our sense of time. Our attachment to the vita activa creates an imperative to work which degrades the human being into a ...Show more
Vita Contemplativa: In Praise of Inactivity by Byung-Chul Han
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
In our busy and hurried lives, we are losing the ability to be inactive. Human existence becomes fully absorbed by activity - even leisure, treated as a respite from work, becomes part of the same logic. Intense life today means first of all more performance or more consumption. We have forgotten that ...Show more