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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 structures inherent in ritual behaviour has led to overdependence on the contingent to steer identity. Avoiding saccharine nostalgia for the ritu...

Was wir heute Wachstum nennen, ist in Wirklichkeit ein Auswuchs, eine karzinomatöse Wucherung, die den gesellschaftlichen Organismus zerstört. Mit einer unerklärlichen, tödlichen Vitalität metastasieren und wuchern diese Auswüchse endlos weiter. Ab einem bestimmten Punkt ist die Produktion nicht mehr produktiv, sondern destruktiv. Der Kapitalismus hat schon längst diesen kritischen Punkt überschritten. Seine Destruktivkräfte bringen nicht nur ...

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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...

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»Es wird heute unentwegt moralisiert. Gleichzeitig verroht aber die Gesellschaft. Höflichkeiten verschwinden. Der Kult der Authentizität missachtet sie. Immer seltener werden schöne Umgangsformen. Auch in dieser Hinsicht sind wir feindlich gegenüber Formen. Die Moral schließt offenbar die Verrohung der Gesellschaft nicht aus. Die Moral ist ohne Form. Man könnte sogar sagen: Je moralisierender eine Gesellschaft ist, desto unhöflicher ist sie. G...

Fresh and original perspective on the nature of power, shedding new light on the key feature of political life, rarely considered on its own terms.

Power is a pervasive phenomenon yet there is little consensus on what it is and how it should be understood. In this book the cultural theorist Byung-Chul Han develops a fresh and original perspective on the nature of power, shedding new light on this key feature of social and political life. Power is commonly defined as a causal relation: an individual's power is the cause that produces a change of behaviour in someone else against the latte...

Unbeobachtet findet Unterhaltung heute ihren Weg aus Brettspielen und Fernsehsendungen in alle Bereiche unseres Alltags und wird zum machtvollen Modus der Kommunikation. Wie ist dieses Phänomen zu deuten und woher stammt die weitverbreitete Unterhaltungsfeindlichkeit im abendländischen Denken? In seinem weitsichtigen und originellen Essay liest Byung-Chul Han die zahlreichen Ausgestaltungen von Unterhaltung ausgehend von der christlichen Passi...

Der international renommierte Philosoph Byung-Chul Han widmet sich der Schönheit der Erde und der Natur. Ein ungewöhnliches Buch über die Arbeit im Garten, über Jahreszeiten und die Romantik, über ein verändertes Zeitgefühl, Kants "Kritik der reinen Vernunft" und Schuberts "Winterreise".Eines Tages fasst Byung-Chul Han den Entschluss, sich täglich der Gartenarbeit zu widmen. Drei Frühlinge, Sommer, Herbste und Winter tut er dies. Seinen Berlin...

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Some things never disappear¿violence, for example. Violence is ubiquitous and incessant but protean, varying its outward form according to the social constellation at hand. In Topology of Violence, the philosopher Byung-Chul Han considers the shift in violence from the visible to the invisible, from the frontal to the viral to the self-inflicted, from brute force to mediated force, from the real to the virtual. Violence, Han tells us, has gone...

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. The result is a 'terror of the Same', lives in which we no longer pursue knowledge, insight and experience but are instead reduced to the echo ...

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. The result is a 'terror of the Same', lives in which we no longer pursue knowledge, insight and experience but are instead reduced to the echo ...

Han argues that in our busy schedules, the value we attach to the vita activa is producing a crisis in our sense of time, so we must relearn the art of lingering to ensure we have time for reflection and contemplation. Paperback edition.

Viviamo in perenne mancanza di tempo. Quasi in apnea, ci affrettiamo per poter fare esperienza di tutto quello che il nostro mondo iperproduttivo ci mette davanti. Accelerare per avere più tempo è diventato l'imperativo della nostra vita. Ma questa 'epoca dell'affanno', in definitiva, ci rende ansiosi, stressati, disorientati. L'accelerazione della tecnologia e delle trasformazioni sociali non solo ha annientato lo spazio e la geografia stessa...

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 labouring animal, an animal laborans. At the same time, the hyperactivity which characterizes our daily routines robs human beings of the capac...

Der Eros gilt dem Anderen im emphatischen Sinne. In der Hölle des Gleichen, die unsere Gesellschaft zu werden droht, gibt es daher keine erotische Erfahrung. Der heutige Terror der Immanenz, der alles zum Gegenstand des Konsums macht, zerstört das erotische Begehren. Es ist ein fatales Kennzeichen der immer narzisstischer werdenden Gesellschaft, dass der Andere unbemerkt verschwindet. Die Müdigkeitsgesellschaft, in der man erschöpft von sich s...

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 of 'pornography' of beauty. In this book, cultural theorist Byung-Chul Han reinvigorates aesthetic theory for our digital age. He interrogates ...

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 of 'pornography' of beauty. In this book, cultural theorist Byung-Chul Han reinvigorates aesthetic theory for our digital age. He interrogates ...