Byung-Chul Han is a Korean-born Professor of Philosophy and Cultural Studies who teaches at the University of the Arts (Ud K) in Berlin. He is the author of more than 20 books including The Scent of Time, The Transparency Society and The Burnout Society.
24 Ebooks by Daniel Steuer
Christina Stojanova & Bela Szabados: Wittgenstein at the Movies
Ludwig Wittgenstein loved movies, and based on his remarks on watching them, there is a strong connection between his experience of watching films and his thoughts on aesthetics. Furthermore, …
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Byung-Chul Han: Saving Beauty
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 …
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Byung-Chul Han: The Scent of Time
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 …
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Frieder Vogelmann: Spell of Responsibility
Most people would agree that we should behave and act in a responsible way. Yet only 200 years ago, ‘;responsibility’ was only of marginal importance in discussions of law and legal practice, and it …
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Sascha Bru & Wolfgang Huemer: Wittgenstein Reading
Wittgenstein’s thought is reflected in his reading and reception of other authors. Wittgenstein Reading approaches the moment of literature as a vehicle of self-reflection for Wittgenstein. What soun …
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Kai Buchheister & Daniel Steuer: Ludwig Wittgenstein
Musik und Literatur. Sie spielen in Wittgensteins Denken ebenso eine wichtige Rolle wie Physik, Mathematik, Psychologie, Psychoanalyse und Anthropologie. Daher gehen von seinen Texten viele …
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Max Liljefors & Gregor Noll: War and Algorithm
New military technologies are animated by fantasies of perfect knowledge, lawfulness, and vision that contrast sharply with the very real limits of human understanding, law, and vision. Thus, various …
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Jörg Spater: Kracauer
Siegfried Kracauer was one of the most important German thinkers of the twentieth century. His writings on Weimar culture, mass society, photography and film were groundbreaking and they anticipated …
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Byung-Chul Han: The Disappearance of Rituals
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 …
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Byung-Chul Han: The Disappearance of Rituals
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 …
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Peter Haffner & Zygmunt Bauman: Making the Familiar Unfamiliar
Shortly before his death, Zygmunt Bauman spent several days in conversation with the Swiss journalist Peter Haffner. Out of these conversations emerged this book in which Bauman shows himself to be …
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Byung-Chul Han: Capitalism and the Death Drive
What we call growth today is in fact a tumorous growth, a cancerous proliferation which is disrupting the social organism. These tumours endlessly metastasize and grow with an inexplicable, deadly …
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Byung-Chul Han: Capitalism and the Death Drive
What we call growth today is in fact a tumorous growth, a cancerous proliferation which is disrupting the social organism. These tumours endlessly metastasize and grow with an inexplicable, deadly …
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Byung-Chul Han: The Palliative Society
Our societies today are characterized by a universal algophobia: a generalized fear of pain. We strive to avoid all painful conditions – even the pain of love is treated as suspect. This algophobia …
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Byung-Chul Han: Hyperculture
In the wake of globalization, cultural forms of expression have become increasingly detached from their places of origin, circulating in a hyper-domain of culture where there is no real difference …
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Byung-Chul Han: Non-things
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 …
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Byung-Chul Han: Infocracy
The tsunami of information unleashed by digitization is threatening to overwhelm us, drowning us in a sea of frenzied communication and disrupting many spheres of social life, including politics. …
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Byung-Chul Han: The Philosophy of Zen Buddhism
Zen Buddhism is a form of Mahayana Buddhism that originated in China and is strongly focused on meditation. It is characteristically sceptical towards language and distrustful of conceptual thought, …
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Byung-Chul Han: The Philosophy of Zen Buddhism
Zen Buddhism is a form of Mahayana Buddhism that originated in China and is strongly focused on meditation. It is characteristically sceptical towards language and distrustful of conceptual thought, …
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Byung-Chul Han: Absence
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 …
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Byung-Chul Han: Absence
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 …
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Byung-Chul Han: Vita Contemplativa
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 lo …
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Byung-Chul Han: The Crisis of Narration
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 …
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Axel Honneth: The Working Sovereign
What role does the organisation of labour relations play in the health of a democratic society? Axel Honneth’s major new work is devoted to answering this question. His central thesis is that …
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