Télécharger le livre :  In Praise of the Earth

The 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 spent three springs, summers, autumns, and winters in his secret garden in...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2025-09-03

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Télécharger le livre :  The Spirit of Hope

A 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 civilization are conjured up with ever greater urgency. Anxiously, we face a bleak...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2024-09-09

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Télécharger le livre :  The Working Sovereign

What role does the organisation of labour relations play in the health of a democratic society? Axel Honneth’s major new work is devoted to answering this question.  His central thesis is that participation in democratic will formation can only proceed from a...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2024-08-20

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Télécharger le livre :  The Crisis of Narration

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 becomes storyselling and narratives lose their...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2024-01-19

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Télécharger le livre :  Vita Contemplativa

In 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 logic. Intense life today means first of all more performance or more...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2023-10-23

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Télécharger le livre :  Absence

Western 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 but on absence. The fundamental topos of Far Eastern thinking is not...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2023-02-27

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Télécharger le livre :  The Philosophy of Zen Buddhism

Zen 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, which explains whyZen Buddhist sayings are so enigmatic and succinct....
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2022-08-29

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Télécharger le livre :  Infocracy

The 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.  Election campaigns are now being waged as information wars with bots and...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2022-07-19

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Télécharger le livre :  Hyperculture

In 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 anymore between indigenous and foreign, near and far, the familiar and...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2022-01-10

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Télécharger le livre :  The Palliative Society

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...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2021-06-24

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Télécharger le livre :  Capitalism and the Death Drive

What 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 vitality. At a certain point this growth is no longer productive, but...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2021-05-18

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Télécharger le livre :  Making the Familiar Unfamiliar

Shortly before his death, Zygmunt Bauman spent several days in conversation with the Swiss journalist Peter Haffner. Out of these conversations emerged this book in which Bauman shows himself to be the pre-eminent social thinker for which he became world renowned, a...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2020-10-28

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Télécharger le livre :  The Disappearance of Rituals

Untrammelled 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 pathologies engendered by it. We are individuals afloat in an atomised society,...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2020-09-29

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Télécharger le livre :  Kracauer

Siegfried Kracauer was one of the most important German thinkers of the twentieth century. His writings on Weimar culture, mass society, photography and film were groundbreaking and they anticipated many of the themes later developed members of the Frankfurt School and...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2020-06-11

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Télécharger le livre :  Saving Beauty

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...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2017-10-27

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Télécharger le livre :  The Scent of Time

In 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 time.  Our attachment to the vita activa creates an imperative to work...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2017-09-25

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