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The Tonality of Thought Byung-Chul Han 9781509569670
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.76In a lecture given in 2023, Byung-Chul Han likened his thinking to music: like the Goldberg Variations, his books present variations on themes, though in his case the variations are articulated in... -
The Tonality of Thought Byung-Chul Han 9781509569663
RRP: $58.05Booksplease Price: $42.16In a lecture given in 2023, Byung-Chul Han likened his thinking to music: like the Goldberg Variations, his books present variations on themes, though in his case the variations are articulated in... -
The Burnout Society by Byung-Chul Han
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.51Our competitive, service-oriented societies are taking a toll on the late-modern individual. Rather than improving life, multitasking, "user-friendly" technology, and the culture of convenience are... -
Saving Beauty Byung-Chul Han 9781509515097
RRP: $51.60Booksplease Price: $47.32Beauty today is a paradox. The cult of beauty is ubiquitous but it has lost its transcendence and become little more than an aspect of consumerism, the aesthetic dimension of capitalism. The sublime... -
What is Power? Byung-Chul Han 9781509516100
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $16.50Power 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... -
What is Power? Byung-Chul Han 9781509516094
RRP: $51.60Booksplease Price: $46.83Power 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... -
The Crisis of Narration by Byung-Chul Han 9781509560424
RRP: $58.05Booksplease Price: $52.83Narratives produce the ties that bind us. They create community, eliminate contingency and anchor us in being. And yet in our contemporary information society, where everything has become arbitrary... -
Saving Beauty Byung-Chul Han 9781509515103
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $11.86Beauty today is a paradox. The cult of beauty is ubiquitous but it has lost its transcendence and become little more than an aspect of consumerism, the aesthetic dimension of capitalism. The sublime... -
Capitalism and the Death Drive by Byung-Chul Han
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $15.92What we call growth today is in fact a tumorous growth, a cancerous proliferation which is disrupting the social organism. These tumours endlessly metastasize and grow with an inexplicable, deadly... -
The Transparency Society by Byung-Chul Han 9780804794602
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.78Transparency is the order of the day. It is a term, a slogan, that dominates public discourse about corruption and freedom of information. Considered crucial to democracy, it touches our political... -
The Spirit of Hope Byung-Chul Han 9781509565191
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $11.92A spectre is haunting us: fear. We are constantly confronted with apocalyptic scenarios: pandemics, world war, the climate catastrophe. Images of the end of the world and the end of human... -
The Crisis of Narration by Byung-Chul Han 9781509560431
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.06Narratives produce the ties that bind us. They create community, eliminate contingency and anchor us in being. And yet in our contemporary information society, where everything has become arbitrary... -
The Agony of Eros: Volume 1 by Byung-Chul Han
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $10.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262533379Author Byung-Chul HanFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press... -
The Philosophy of Zen Buddhism Byung-Chul Han 9781509545094
Booksplease Price: $58.15Zen Buddhism is a form of Mahayana Buddhism that originated in China and is strongly focused on meditation. It is characteristically sceptical towards language and distrustful of conceptual thought,... -
Capitalism and the Death Drive Byung-Chul Han 9781509545018
RRP: $58.05Booksplease Price: $52.83What we call growth today is in fact a tumorous growth, a cancerous proliferation which is disrupting the social organism. These tumours endlessly metastasize and grow with an inexplicable, deadly... -
Topology of Violence: Volume 9 by Byung-Chul Han
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $16.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262534956Author Byung-Chul HanFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press... -
Hyperculture: Culture and Globalisation Byung-Chul Han 9781509546169
RRP: $51.60Booksplease Price: $46.83In the wake of globalization, cultural forms of expression have become increasingly detached from their places of origin, circulating in a hyper-domain of culture where there is no real difference... -
The Philosophy of Zen Buddhism Byung-Chul Han 9781509545100
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $15.92Zen Buddhism is a form of Mahayana Buddhism that originated in China and is strongly focused on meditation. It is characteristically sceptical towards language and distrustful of conceptual thought,... -
Hyperculture: Culture and Globalisation Byung-Chul Han 9781509546176
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $15.42In the wake of globalization, cultural forms of expression have become increasingly detached from their places of origin, circulating in a hyper-domain of culture where there is no real difference... -
Byung-Chul Han: A Critical Introduction by Steven Knepper 9781509560998
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $20.42Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Infocracy: Digitization and the Crisis of Democracy by Byung-Chul Han 9781509552979
RRP: $58.05Booksplease Price: $52.31The 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 politics. ... -
Infocracy: Digitization and the Crisis of Democracy Byung-Chul Han 9781509552986
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $14.95The 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 politics. ... -
The Disappearance of Rituals: A Topology of the Present Byung-Chul Han 9781509542758
RRP: $51.60Booksplease Price: $46.83Untrammelled neoliberalism and the inexorable force of production have produced a 21st century crisis of community: a narcissistic cult of authenticity and mass turning-inward are among the... -
The Palliative Society: Pain Today Byung-Chul Han 9781509547234
RRP: $58.05Booksplease Price: $48.35Our 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... -
In the Swarm: Digital Prospects: Volume 3 by Byung-Chul Han
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $12.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262533362Author Byung-Chul HanFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press... -
Vita Contemplativa: In Praise of Inactivity by Byung-Chul Han 9781509558001
RRP: $58.05Booksplease Price: $52.31In 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 of the same... -
Non-things: Upheaval in the Lifeworld Byung-Chul Han 9781509551705
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $15.92We 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 is being... -
Shanzhai: Deconstruction in Chinese: Volume 8 by Byung-Chul Han
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $13.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262534369Author Byung-Chul HanFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press... -
Vita Contemplativa: In Praise of Inactivity by Byung-Chul Han 9781509558018
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $15.92In 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 of the same... -
The Palliative Society: Pain Today by Byung-Chul Han 9781509547241
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $16.50Our 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... -
Byung-Chul Han: A Critical Introduction Steven Knepper 9781509560981
RRP: $70.95Booksplease Price: $63.27Byung-Chul Han is one of the most important living philosophers, renowned for his critiques of the digital age. In response to the idea that new technological devices expand our freedom, he argues... -
In Praise of the Earth: A Journey into the Garden Byung-Chul Han 9781509567898
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $17.43The 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 Byung-Chul Han... -
Absence: On the Culture and Philosophy of the Far East Byung-Chul Han 9781509546190
RRP: $58.05Booksplease Price: $52.31Western 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 not on essence... -
Good Entertainment: A Deconstruction of the Western Passion Narrative by Byung-Chul Han
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $12.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262537506Author Byung-Chul HanFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press... -
Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power by Byung-Chul Han 9781804298428
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.17Byung-Chul Han, a star of German philosophy, continues his passionate critique of neoliberalism, trenchantly describing a regime of technological domination that, in contrast to Foucault's biopower,... -
The Scent of Time: A Philosophical Essay on the Art of Lingering by Byung-Chul Han 9781509516049
RRP: $51.60Booksplease Price: $46.83In 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 our sense of... -
The Scent of Time: A Philosophical Essay on the Art of Lingering Byung-Chul Han 9781509516056
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $14.29In 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 our sense of... -
The Expulsion of the Other: Society, Perception and Communication Today by Byung-Chul Han 9781509523061
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $14.05The 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... -
The Expulsion of the Other: Society, Perception and Communication Today Byung-Chul Han 9781509523054
RRP: $53.54Booksplease Price: $48.47The 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... -
Precarity, Trauma, Addiction, and Love in Philosophical Counseling Dr. Ross Channing Reed 9781666934373
Booksplease Price: $104.14Language around trauma, anxiety, and burnout is pervasive in our current climate, where it seems like we need superhuman powers just to make it through the day. This book argues that the expectations...