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...
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...
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, becomes part...
Zen Buddhism is a form of Mah y na Buddhism that originated in China and is strongly focused on meditation. It is characteristically sceptical towards language and distrustful of conceptual...
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 a digital order, the world of things...
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Rivisitando alcune categorie classiche del pensiero novecentesco, il lavoro di Byung-Chul Han si focalizza con particolare attenzione sul disagio dell’individuo tardo-moderno nella...
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The earth is not a dead, mute landscape but an eloquent, living being. Sometimes it just takes a spade, a packet of seeds, and a pair of sturdy boots to realize it. The philosopher...
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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...
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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Our societies today are characterized by a universal algophobia: a generalized fear of pain. We strive to avoid all painful conditions - even the pain of love is treated as suspect...
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En relación con el concepto de poder, sigue reinando el caosteórico. Frente a todo lo que el fenómeno tiene de obvio tenemos todolo que el concepto tiene de oscuro. Para unos, poder...
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Lo zen è la scuola buddhista più refrattaria a ogni pensiero concettuale, la più scettica nei confronti del linguaggio e della sua capacità di trasmettere quella viva verità che lo...
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Das neue Buch vom Autor der Müdigkeitsgesellschaft §Nach seinem Bestseller Müdigkeitsgesellschaft führt Byung-Chul Han, "der neue Star der deutschen Philosophie" (El País), seine Kritik...
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Eine Ästhetik des digitalen Zeitalters - Jeff Koons, iPhone und Basilian Waxing: Warum finden wir das Glatte schön?§§Die Schönheit befindet sich heute in einer paradoxalen Situation...
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