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    The Burnout Society

    Byung-Chul Han
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    Our competitive, service-oriented societies are taking a toll on the late-modern individual. Rather than improving life, multitasking, user-friendl...

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    The Crisis of Narration

    Byung-Chul Han
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    Narratives produce the ties that bind us. They create community, eliminate contingency and anchor us in being. And yet in our contemporary informat...

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    Vita Contemplativa: In Praise of Inactivity

    Byung-Chul Han
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    In our busy and hurried lives, we are losing the ability to be inactive. Human existence becomes fully absorbed by activity even leisure, treated ...

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    Good Entertainment: A Deconstruction of the Western Passion Narrative

    Byung-Chul Han
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    A philosopher considers entertainment, in all its totalizing varietyinfotainment, edutainment, servotainmentand traces the notion through Kant, Zen...

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    Non-things: Upheaval in the Lifeworld

    Byung-Chul Han
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    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 ...

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    Infocracy: Digitization and the Crisis of Democracy

    Byung-Chul Han
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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 ...

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    The Disappearance of Rituals: A Topology of the Present

    Byung-Chul Han
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    Untrammelled neoliberalism and the inexorable force of production have produced a 21st century crisis of community: a narcissistic cult of authenti...

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    The Spirit of Hope

    Byung-Chul Han
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    A spectre is haunting us: fear. We are constantly confronted with apocalyptic scenarios: pandemics, world war, the climate catastrophe. Images of t...

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

    Byung-Chul Han
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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 v...

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    Shanzhai: Deconstruction in Chinese: Volume 8

    Byung-Chul Han
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    Tracing the thread of decreation in Chinese thought, from constantly changing classical masterpieces to fake cell phones that are better than the o...

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    The Transparency Society

    Byung-Chul Han
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    Transparency is the order of the day. It is a term, a slogan, that dominates public discourse about corruption and freedom of information. Consider...

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    The Disappearance of Rituals: A Topology of the Present

    Byung-Chul Han
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    Untrammelled neoliberalism and the inexorable force of production have produced a 21st century crisis of community: a narcissistic cult of authenti...

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    The Crisis of Narration

    Byung-Chul Han
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    Narratives produce the ties that bind us. They create community, eliminate contingency and anchor us in being. And yet in our contemporary informat...

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    The Philosophy of Zen Buddhism

    Byung-Chul Han
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    Zen Buddhism is a form of Mahyna Buddhism that originated in China and is strongly focused on meditation. It is characteristically sceptical toward...

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    What is Power?

    Byung-Chul Han
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    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 Byu...

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    Topology of Violence

    Byung-Chul Han
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    One of today's most widely read philosophers considers the shift in violence from visible to invisible, from negativity to excess of positivity.Som...

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    The Palliative Society: Pain Today

    Byung-Chul Han
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    Our societies today are characterized by a universal algophobia: a generalized fear of pain. We strive to avoid all painful conditions even the pa...

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    Vita Contemplativa: In Praise of Inactivity

    Byung-Chul Han
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    In our busy and hurried lives, we are losing the ability to be inactive. Human existence becomes fully absorbed by activity even leisure, treated ...

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    Absence: On the Culture and Philosophy of the Far East

    Byung-Chul Han
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    Western thinking has long been dominated by essence, by a preoccupation with that which dwells in itself and delimits itself from the other. By con...

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    A Fire to Light Our Tongues: Texas Writers on Spirituality

    Byung-Chul Han
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    A Fire to Light Our Tongues: Texas Writers on Spirituality brings together the works of writers in Texas. The title is taken, with permission, from...

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    Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power

    Byung-Chul Han
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    Byung-Chul Han, a star of German philosophy, continues his passionate critique of neoliberalism, trenchantly describing a regime of technological d...

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    The Agony of Eros: Volume 1

    Byung-Chul Han
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    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 r...

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    In the Swarm: Digital Prospects: Volume 3

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

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