Byung-Chul Han: The Palliative Society

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Beschreibung

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. This algophobia extends into society: less and less space is given to conflicts and controversies that might prompt painful discussions. It takes hold of politics too: politics becomes a palliative politics that is incapable of implementing radical reforms that might be painful, so all we get is more of the same.

Faced with the coronavirus pandemic, the palliative society is transformed into a society of survival. The virus enters the palliative zone of well-being and turns it into a quarantine zone in which life is increasingly focused on survival. And the more life becomes survival, the greater the fear of death: the pandemic makes death, which we had carefully repressed and set aside, visible again. Everywhere, the prolongation of life at any cost is the preeminent value, and we are prepared to sacrifice everything that makes life worth living for the sake of survival.

This trenchant analysis of our contemporary societies by one of the most original cultural critics of our time will appeal to a wide readership.

Über den Autor

Byung-Chul Han is a Korean-born Professor of Philosophy and Cultural Studies who teaches at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK). He is the author of more than twenty books including The Scent of Time, Saving Beauty and The Burnout Society.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Algophobia

The Compulsion of Happiness

Survival

The Meaninglessness of Pain

The Cunning of Pain

Pain as Truth

The Poetics of Pain

The Dialectic of Pain

The Ontology of Pain

The Ethics of Pain

The Last Man

Notes

Erscheinungsjahr:	2021
Genre:	Philosophie
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	76 S.
ISBN-13:	9781509547241
ISBN-10:	150954724X
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Han, Byung-Chul
Übersetzung:	Steuer, Daniel
Hersteller:	John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Maße:	208 x 142 x 10 mm
Von/Mit:	Byung-Chul Han
Erscheinungsdatum:	16.07.2021
Gewicht:	0,109 kg

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