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Saving Beauty by Byung-Chul Han
$21.95 AUD
Category: Mind, Body, Spirit
Beauty 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 and unsettling aspects of beauty have given way to corporeal pleasures and 'likes', resulting in a kind o ...Show more
The Agony of Eros by Byung-Chul Han
$21.99 AUD
Category: Mind, Body, Spirit | Series: Untimely Meditations
Byung-Chul Han is one of the most widely read philosophers in Europe today, a member of the new generation of German thinkers that includes Markus Gabriel and Armen Avanessian. In The Agony of Eros, a bestseller in Germany, Han considers the threat to love and desire in today's society. For Han, love re ...Show more
The Burnout Society by Byung-Chul Han
$35.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Our 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 producing disorders that range from depression to attention deficit disorder to borderline personality dis ...Show more
The Crisis of Narration by Byung-Chul Han
$26.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Narratives 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 and random, storytelling shouts out loudly but narratives no longer have their binding force. Wher ...Show more
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