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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 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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    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 Palliative Society: Pain Today

    Byung-Chul Han

    An incisive critique of our modern desire to avoid pain –

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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    Capitalism and the Death Drive

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    A leading cultural theorist examines the inherent destructiveness of capitalism –

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

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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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

    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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    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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    Infocracy: Digitization and the Crisis of Democrac y

    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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    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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    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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    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

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    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: Umbr?uche der Lebenswelt ? by Ullstein Buchverlage GmbH, Berlin. Published in 2021 by Ullstein Verlag"--Title page verso.

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    Non-things: Upheaval in the Lifeworld

    B Han

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

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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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    La Sociedad Paliativa

    Han Byung-Chul

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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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