Byung-Chul Han is a Korean-born Professor of Philosophy and Cultural Studies who teaches at the University of the Arts (UdK) in Berlin. He is the author of more than 20 books including The Scent of Time, Saving Beauty and The Burnout Society.
“Byung-Chul Han's new book challenges the reader to go far beyond
the worn-out critique of neoliberalism. On the one side, there is
the progressive replacement of substance through communication,
painted as a road to existential perdition; it contrasts, on the
other side, with the utopian view of a return towards the security
of rituals in their form and appearance. This reversal of
long-established thought is expressed in a compressed and energetic
language that reads like a manifesto.”
Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Stanford University
“The kind of book … that leads one to rethink our standard
narratives of history and to see our society and era in a fresh
light.”
Steven Mintz, Inside Higher Ed
“an essential philosopher for anyone wanting to diagnose what
plagues the modern person”
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