Byung Chul Han: 40 books
El aroma del tiempo
Un ensayo filosófico sobre el arte de demorarse
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 25, 2015
Byung-Chul Han reflexiona en este ensayo sobre la crisis temporal contemporánea, en diálogo con Nietzsche y Heidegger. La fugacidad de cada instante y la ausencia de un ritmo que dé un sentido a la vida y a la muerte, nos sitúa ante un nuevo escenario temporal, que ya ha dejado atrás la noción...
by Byung-Chul Han
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Byung-Chul Han busca hacer explícita la filosofía que está implícita en el budismo Zen, y lo hace a través de la comparación con los filósofos más destacados de la filosofía occidental.
Byung-Chul Han nos propone en este ensayo sobre el budismo zen que es posible reflexionar de modo...
Psicopolítica
Neoliberalismo y nuevas técnicas de poder
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 11, 2014
El filósofo Byung-Chul Han dirige ahora su mirada crítica hacia las nuevas técnicas de poder del capitalismo neoliberal, que dan acceso a la esfera de la psique, convirtiéndola en su mayor fuerza de producción. La psicopolítica es, según Han, aquel sistema de dominación que, en lugar de emplear...
Lob der Erde
Eine Reise in den Garten
Language: German
Release Date: March 9, 2018
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...
Die Austreibung des Anderen
Gesellschaft, Wahrnehmung und Kommunikation heute
Language: German
Release Date: July 28, 2016
Der international als "neuer Star der deutschen Philosophie" gehandelte Byung-Chul Han legt nach seinem Bestseller "Psychopolitik" sein neues Buch über Gesellschaft, Wahrnehmung und Kommunikation heute vor: Die Zeit, in der es den Anderen gab, ist vorbei. Der Andere als Freund,...
by Byung-Chul Han
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
An argument that love requires the courage to accept self-negation for the sake of discovering the Other.
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...
Shanzhai
Deconstruction in Chinese
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
Tracing the thread of “decreation” in Chinese thought, from constantly changing classical masterpieces to fake cell phones that are better than the original.
Shanzhai is a Chinese neologism that means “fake,” originally coined to describe knock-off cell phones marketed under such names...
by Byung-Chul Han
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
One of today's most widely read philosophers considers the shift in violence from visible to invisible, from negativity to excess of positivity.
Some things never disappear—violence, for example. Violence is ubiquitous and incessant but protean, varying its outward form according to the social...
In the Swarm
Digital Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
A prominent German thinker argues that—contrary to “Twitter Revolution” cheerleading—digital communication is destroying political discourse and political action.
The shitstorm represents an authentic phenomenon of digital communication.
—from In the Swarm
Digital communication...
The Scent of Time
A Philosophical Essay on the Art of Lingering
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
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...
by Byung-Chul Han
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2017
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...
Psychopolitics
Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
Exploring how neoliberalism has discovered the productive force of the psyche
Byung-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...
by Byung-Chul Han
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2018
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...
Psychopolitik
Neoliberalismus und die neuen Machttechniken
Language: German
Release Date: July 24, 2014
Der Philosophie-Bestseller des Jahres 2014 – vom "neuen Star der deutschen Philosophie" (El País)Nach seinem Bestseller ›Müdigkeitsgesellschaft‹ führt der Berliner Philosoph Byung-Chul Han seine Kritik am Neoliberalismus leidenschaftlich fort. Pointiert legt er die Herrschafts-...