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The Burnout Society by Byung-Chul Han
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $10.47Our 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... -
The Transparency Society by Byung-Chul Han 9780804794602
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.44Transparency 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... -
Capitalism and the Death Drive by Byung-Chul Han
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $16.58What 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... -
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... -
The Spirit of Hope Byung-Chul Han 9781509565191
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.67A 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: $13.71Narratives 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: $12.24Beauty 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... -
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,... -
The Agony of Eros: Volume 1 by Byung-Chul Han
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $11.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262533379Author Byung-Chul HanFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint -
Hyperculture: Culture and Globalisation Byung-Chul Han 9781509546176
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $15.92In 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... -
Topology of Violence: Volume 9 by Byung-Chul Han
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $16.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262534956Author Byung-Chul HanFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint -
In the Swarm: Digital Prospects: Volume 3 by Byung-Chul Han
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $12.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262533362Author Byung-Chul HanFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint -
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... -
Infocracy: Digitization and the Crisis of Democracy Byung-Chul Han 9781509552986
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $15.92The 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. ... -
Shanzhai: Deconstruction in Chinese: Volume 8 by Byung-Chul Han
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $13.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262534369Author Byung-Chul HanFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint -
In Praise of the Earth: A Journey into the Garden Byung-Chul Han 9781509567898
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $17.36The 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... -
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... -
Good Entertainment: A Deconstruction of the Western Passion Narrative by Byung-Chul Han
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $12.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262537506Author Byung-Chul HanFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint -
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 Byung-Chul Han 9781509516056
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $14.33In 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... -
Becoming Myself: A Psychiatrist's Memoir by Irvin D. Yalom 9780349410074
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $17.63'I was born in Washington, DC, June 13, 1931, of parents who immigrated from Russia shortly after the first world war. Home was the inner city of Washington - a small apartment atop my parents'... -
Absence – On the Culture and Philosophy of the Far East by BC Han
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $15.60Western 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... -
The Disappearance of Rituals – A Topology of the Present by B Han
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.62Untrammelled 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... -
Algorithms of Anxiety: Fear in the Digital Age Anthony Elliott 9781509555437
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $17.63Machine learning algorithms are widely presumed to herald a world in which the crippling burdens of anxiety can be left behind. The digital revolution promises a brave new world where individuals,...