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Byung-Chul Han

Steven Knepper, Ethan Stoneman, Robert Wyllie

Byung-Chul Han is one of the most important living philosophers, renowned for his critiques of the digital age. In response to the idea that new technological devices expand our freedom…

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Byung-Chul Han

Steven Knepper, Ethan Stoneman, Robert Wyllie

Byung-Chul Han is one of the most important living philosophers, renowned for his critiques of the digital age. In response to the idea that new technological devices expand our freedom…

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The Burnout Society

Byung-Chul Han,Han Byung-Chul

Every epoch has its emblematic illnesses, this book argues, and our society is undergoing a silent paradigm shift that has led to the pathological exhaustion commonly referred to as burnout.

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The Transparency Society

Byung-Chul Han,Han Byung-Chul

In this manifesto, German-Korean philosopher Byung-Chul Han denounces transparency as a false ideal, the strongest of our contemporary mythologies, and the most pernicious.

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The Crisis of Narration

Byung-Chul Han

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…

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What is Power?

Byung-Chul Han

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…

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Infocracy: Digitization and the Crisis of Democrac y

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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. Election…

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Hyperculture: Culture and Globalisation

Byung-Chul Han

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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Vita Contemplativa

Byung-Chul Han

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…

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The Crisis of Narration

Byung-Chul Han

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…

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Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power

Byung-Chul Han

Exploring how neoliberalism has discovered the productive force of the psyche

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The Expulsion of the Other: Society, Perception and Communication Today

Byung-Chul Han

In this work, cultural theorist Byung-Chul Han looks at how we have exchanged variety with an age of sameness, not characterised by external repression but by depression through the self…

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The Palliative Society: Pain Today

Byung-Chul Han

An incisive critique of our modern desire to avoid pain –

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Vita Contemplativa

Byung-Chul Han

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The Spirit of Hope

Byung-Chul Han

A spectre is haunting us: fear. We are constantly confronted with apocalyptic scenarios: pandemics, world war, the climate catastrophe. Images of the end of the world and the end of…

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Caras de la Muerte

Byung-Chul Han

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La Desaparicion de Los Rituales

Byung-Chul Han

This new essay by Byung-Chul Han is a call to safeguard the sources of social adherence and familiarity. The contemporary world rites are perceived as obsolescence and expendable. For Byung-Chul…

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La Sociedad Paliativa

Han Byung-Chul

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What is Power?

Byung-Chul Han

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…

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The Philosophy of Zen Buddhism

BC Han

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, which…

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Capitalism and the Death Drive

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A leading cultural theorist examines the inherent destructiveness of capitalism –

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El Corazon de Heidegger

Byung-Chul Han

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Infocracia: La digitalizacion y la crisis de la democracia / Infocracy: Digitali zation and the Crisis of Democracy

Byung-Chul Han

Un analisis sagaz del regimen de la informacion, el nuevo gobierno al que estamos sometidos, por el filosofo mas leido del siglo XXI.

La digitalizacion avanza inexorablemente. Aturdidos por el…

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Sociedad del Cansancio, La

Byung-Chul Han

Our competitive, service-oriented societies are taking a toll on the late-modern individual. Denouncing a world in which every against-the-grain response can lead to further disempowerment, he draws on literature, philosophy…

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In the Swarm: Digital Prospects

Byung-Chul Han (Professor, Universitat der Kunste Berlin)

A prominent German thinker argues that-contrary to Twitter Revolution cheerleading-digital communication is destroying political discourse and political action.

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Absence: On the Culture and Philosophy of the Far East

Byung-Chul Han, Daniel Steuer (trans.)

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…

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Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power

Byung-Chul Han

Exploring how neoliberalism has discovered the productive force of the psyche

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Saving Beauty

Byung-Chul Han

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…

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The Expulsion of the Other: Society, Perception and Communication Today

Byung-Chul Han

In this work, cultural theorist Byung-Chul Han looks at how we have exchanged variety with an age of sameness, not characterised by external repression but by depression through the self…

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Hyperculture - Culture and Globalisation

Byung-Chul Han

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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Absence: On the Culture and Philosophy of the Far East

Byung-Chul Han

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The Palliative Society - Pain Today

Byung-Chul Han

An incisive critique of our modern desire to avoid pain –

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Infocracy: Digitization and the Crisis of Democracy

Byung-Chul Han

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. Election…

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Saving Beauty

Byung-Chul Han

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The Scent of Time - A Philosophical Essay on the Art of Lingering

B Han

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…

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The Disappearance of Rituals - A Topology of the Present

B Han

A sharp critique of our contemporary societies in which pseudo-communication and narcissism have replaced community –

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Capitalism and the Death Drive

B Han

A leading cultural theorist examines the inherent destructiveness of capitalism –

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The Philosophy of Zen Buddhism

BC Han

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, which…

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Non-things: Upheaval in the Lifeworld

BC Han

"Originally published in German as Undinge: Umbreuche der Lebenswelt A by Ullstein Buchverlage GmbH, Berlin. Published in 2021 by Ullstein Verlag"--Title page verso.

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The Scent of Time: A Philosophical Essay on the Art of Lingering

B Han

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…

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The Disappearance of Rituals: A Topology of the Present

B Han

A sharp critique of our contemporary societies in which pseudo-communication and narcissism have replaced community –

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Non-things: Upheaval in the Lifeworld

B Han

"Originally published in German as Undinge: Umbreuche der Lebenswelt A by Ullstein Buchverlage GmbH, Berlin. Published in 2021 by Ullstein Verlag"--Title page verso.

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Shanzhai: Deconstruction in Chinese

Byung-Chul Han (Professor, Universitat der Kunste Berlin)

Tracing the thread of decreation in Chinese thought, from constantly changing classical masterpieces to fake cell phones that are better than the original.

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Topology of Violence

Byung-Chul Han (Professor, Universitat der Kunste Berlin)

One of today’s most widely read philosophers considers the shift in violence from visible to invisible, from negativity to excess of positivity.

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Good Entertainment: A Deconstruction of the Western Passion Narrative

Byung-Chul Han (Professor, Universitat der Kunste Berlin)

A philosopher considers entertainment, in all its totalizing variety-infotainment, edutainment, servotainment-and traces the notion through Kant, Zen Buddhism, Heidegger, Kafka, and Rauschenberg.

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The Agony of Eros

Byung-Chul Han (Professor, Universitat der Kunste Berlin)

An argument that love requires the courage to accept self-negation for the sake of discovering the Other.

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Ars22: Living Encounters

A comprehensive sampling of the latest trends in international contemporary art

This is the 10th in the series of major international contemporary art exhibitions originally launched in 1961 in Helsinki…

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Byung-Chul Han

Byung-Chul Han

The Burnout Society

The Transparency Society

The Crisis of Narration

What is Power?

Infocracy: Digitization and the Crisis of Democrac y

Hyperculture: Culture and Globalisation

Vita Contemplativa

The Crisis of Narration

Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power

The Expulsion of the Other: Society, Perception and Communication Today

The Palliative Society: Pain Today

Vita Contemplativa

The Spirit of Hope

Caras de la Muerte

La Desaparicion de Los Rituales

La Sociedad Paliativa

What is Power?

The Philosophy of Zen Buddhism

Capitalism and the Death Drive

El Corazon de Heidegger

Infocracia: La digitalizacion y la crisis de la democracia / Infocracy: Digitali zation and the Crisis of Democracy

Sociedad del Cansancio, La

In the Swarm: Digital Prospects

Absence: On the Culture and Philosophy of the Far East

Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power

Saving Beauty

The Expulsion of the Other: Society, Perception and Communication Today

Hyperculture - Culture and Globalisation

Absence: On the Culture and Philosophy of the Far East

The Palliative Society - Pain Today

Infocracy: Digitization and the Crisis of Democracy

Saving Beauty

The Scent of Time - A Philosophical Essay on the Art of Lingering

The Disappearance of Rituals - A Topology of the Present

Capitalism and the Death Drive

The Philosophy of Zen Buddhism

Non-things: Upheaval in the Lifeworld

The Scent of Time: A Philosophical Essay on the Art of Lingering

The Disappearance of Rituals: A Topology of the Present

Non-things: Upheaval in the Lifeworld

Shanzhai: Deconstruction in Chinese

Topology of Violence

Good Entertainment: A Deconstruction of the Western Passion Narrative

The Agony of Eros

Ars22: Living Encounters

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