Name: The Expulsion of the Other: Society, Perception and Communication Today
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Author: Byung-Chul Han
ISBN: 9781509523061

Type

Physical Book

Author

Byung-Chul Han

Translated by

Wieland Hoban

Publisher

Polity Press

Year

2018

Language

English

Pages

100

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.8 x 14.0 x 1.0 cm

Weight

0.16 kg.

ISBN13

9781509523061

Edition No.

Synopsis "The Expulsion of the Other: Society, Perception and Communication Today"

The days of the Other are over in this age of excessive communication, information and consumption. What used to be the Other, be it as friend, as Eros or as hell, is now indistinguishable from the self in our narcissistic desire to assimilate everything and everyone until there are no boundaries left. The result is a 'terror of the Same', lives in which we no longer pursue knowledge, insight and experience but are instead reduced to the echo chambers and illusory encounters offered by social media. In extreme cases, this feeling of disorientation and senselessness is compensated through self-harm, or even harming others through acts of terrorism. Byung-Chul Han argues that our times are characterized not by external repression but by an internal depression, whereby the destructive pressure comes not from the Other but from the self. It is only by returning to a society of listeners and lovers, by acknowledging and desiring the Other, that we can seek to overcome the isolation and suffering caused by this crushing process of total assimilation.

Byung-Chul Han

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Byung-Chul Han (Seúl, Corea del Sur, 1959) estudió Filosofía en la Universidad de Friburgo y Literatura alemana y Teología en la Universidad de Múnich. En 1994 se doctoró por la primera de dichas universidades con una tesis sobre Martin Heidegger. Tras su habilitación dio clases de filosofía en la universidad de Basilea, desde 2010 fue profesor de filosofía y teoría de los medios en la Escuela Superior de Diseño de Karlsruhe y desde 2012 es profesor de Filosofía y Estudios culturales en la Universidad de las Artes de Berlín. Es autor de más de una decena de títulos, la mayoría de los cuales se han traducido al castellano en Herder Editorial.

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