Byung-Chul Han

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Byung-Chul Han (* 1959 in Seoul , South Korea ) is a Korean-German cultural scientist , philosopher , author and essayist .

Life

Han first studied metallurgy in Seoul before he decided to study philosophy , German-language literature and Catholic theology in Freiburg im Breisgau and Munich . He was born 1994 in Freiburg with the study Heidegger's heart. Doctorate on the concept of mood with Martin Heidegger . In 2000, Byung-Chul Han completed his habilitation with the phenomenological study "Death and Alterity" in philosophy at the University of Basel . Then he was a private lecturer at the philosophical seminar there until 2010. In the same year he moved to the State University of Design in Karlsruhe , where he was professor of philosophy and media theory until 2012 . From 2012 to 2017 Han was Professor of Philosophy and Cultural Studies at the Berlin University of the Arts . Han lives in Berlin .

In 2015 he received Le Prix Bristol des Lumières . In 2016 he was awarded the Salzburg State Prize for Future Research. Han is one of the initiators of the Charter of Fundamental Digital Rights of the European Union , which was published at the end of November 2016.

His books have so far been translated into more than 20 languages.

Byung-Chul Hans's main research interests include phenomenology , the philosophy of modernity and post-structuralism , aesthetics and social , cultural , religious and media philosophies . His thinking is strongly influenced by Martin Heidegger , Jacques Derrida , Emmanuel Levinas , Jean-François Lyotard and Zen Buddhism .

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Han became known to a wider audience worldwide with his essay The Fatigue Society (2010). In it, Han diagnoses that in modern societies only the efficiency and neoliberal marketing logic of everyone count. The result is pointlessness, depression and, above all, fatigue. In the acceleration, the optimization of the self and the lack of time for oneself and those around him, Han sees a dangerous development that incapacitates people and makes them sick. The essay was filmed in 2015 by the filmmaker Isabella Gresser and was released in 2016. In this film, Han is interviewed in Seoul and Berlin. In both cities, the symptoms of the fatigue society are investigated.

In his current publications, which are mostly in the form of socially critical diagnoses of the times , Byung-Chul Han deals with the transparent behavior of today's subject, which he interprets as a cultural norm enforced by neoliberal market forces. Many subjects today would consider this cult of individualism to be freedom , even though it is part of the capitalist system of self-exploitation. Han fears pressure to voluntarily disclose intimate details that, according to him, borders on pornography and creates a totalitarian system of openness at the expense of other social values ​​such as shame , confidentiality and trust . But many people avoided love and closeness because it could lead to injury. Love is no longer possible in a world of complete presence, in which each individual has become a narcissistic and depressive subject at the same time. The current everyday life is dominated by visibility and superficiality. The erosion of privacy, which also involves something like e. A Wikipedia entry, for example , is a consequence of the fact that “people are treated and acted like data packets for economic benefit. In other words, people have become commodities ”.

criticism

Han has been criticized by both academic philosophy and sociology and the features section . In 2016, literary critic Magnus Klaue published a much-received review of Hans Thinking and Style on Zeit Online . He describes his essayistic writing as a “perfect parody” by Theodor W. Adorno . Hans's statements based on sentences could be combined using a random generator and could thus generate any number of new texts. Klaue formulates his criticism, which is linked to the Frankfurt School , in seven points: 1. Melancholy as habitus . 2. Courage in the first person . 3. Only today counts. 4. Truism as knowledge. 5. No Sartre without Hitchcock . 6. Etymology beats truth. 7. Education for bondage .

Publications

Monographs

Essays

  • Derrida's thoughts on Europe in “The Other Cape”. In: European Philosophy. Edited by Werner Stegmaier, Berlin 2000 (de Gruyter). Pp. 177-188
  • Love and justice with F. Nietzsche. In: Nietzsche and the law. Ed. V. K. Seelmann. Supplement to the archive for legal and social philosophy. Stuttgart 2001. pp. 77-83
  • Commentary on § 45-53 of “Being and Time” (with A. Hügli). In: “Being and Time” in the series “Classics Explaining” (Akademie Verlag). Ed. V. Th. Rentsch. Berlin 2001. pp. 133-148
  • About the friendliness. On the ethics of Martin Heidegger. In: Akzente (1.2002). Pp. 54-68
  • About appropriation. In: Merkur (11.2003). Pp. 1057-1061
  • The kindness of understanding. A philosophical etymology of "understanding". In: Reformatio. Journal of Culture Politics Religion (1.2004). Pp. 4-6
  • Cloning and the Far East. In: Lettre International (64.2004). Pp. 108-109
  • Hegel's Buddhism. Hegel yearbook 2004. pp. 298-301
  • Hegel and the strangers. In: Allgemeine Zeitschrift für Philosophie (3.2004). Pp. 215-223
  • Globalization and hyperculture. In: Lettre International (74.2006). Pp. 122-123
  • About closing - an eulogy. In: Scheidewege - annual journal for skeptical thinking. Born in 2008/09
  • Flat money. Capitalism and Religion or At the Zero Point of Contemplation. In: Lettre International Jubilee Issue (Issue 81, 2008) “This is how we live now. Artists, poets, thinkers on the state of the world ”. Pp. 112-117

Movies

  • Fatigue society: Byung-Chul Han in Seoul and Berlin. Documentary by Isabella Gresser (2016)
  • The Man Who Breaks In (2017)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Werner Stegmaier (ed.): European philosophy. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2000, ISBN 3-11-016900-2 , p. 191 ( online ).
  2. ↑ Music & Aesthetics , Volume 1, 1997, ISSN  1432-9425
  3. ↑ Optimism of Strangers: Who is a Refugee? In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed January 28, 2017]).
  4. ↑ https://www.wiwo.de/politik/ausland/tauchsieder-was-kom-nach-dem-liberalismus/25234600.html
  5. ↑ udk-berlin.de
  6. ^ Byung-Chul Han: "L'homme numérique a aboli l'autre" . In: L'Espress . December 8, 2015. Accessed December 8, 2015.
  7. ↑ See Han: Agonie des Eros, Berlin 2012.
  8. ↑ Create clarity . In: Friday . June 7, 2012. Retrieved June 9, 2012 .; Thomas Zaugg: “The smartphone is a porn machine”. The philosopher Byung-Chul Han is the most accurate critic of our way of life. In: Das Magazin N ° 39, October 3, 2014, pp. 8-17; on-line
  9. ↑ Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power by Byung-Chul Han (review) . In: The Guardian . December 30, 2017. Retrieved February 5, 2019.
  10. ↑ Magnus Klaue: Byung-Chul Han: We had a good time . In: The time . September 14, 2016, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed March 24, 2020]).
  11. ↑ Michael Stallknecht thinks that Han explains convincingly in this volume, “why beauty has become so strangely alien to us” ( No art without injury. Byung-Chul Han saves the real beauty , in: Süddeutsche Zeitung , August 30, 2015, p . 18).
personal data
SURNAME Han, Byung-Chul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South Korean philosopher and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Seoul