Name: The Expulsion of the Other: Society, Perception and Communication Today
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Author: Han, Byung-Chul ; Hoban, Wieland
ISBN: 9781509523061

portada The Expulsion of the Other: Society, Perception and Communication Today

Type

Physical Book

Author

Byung-Chul Han

Translated by

Wieland Hoban

Publisher

Polity Press

Year

2018

Language

English

Pages

100

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.8 x 14.0 x 1.0 cm

Weight

0.16 kg.

ISBN13

9781509523061

Edition No.

Synopsis "The Expulsion of the Other: Society, Perception and Communication Today "

The 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 self in our narcissistic desire to assimilate everything and everyone until there are no boundaries left. The result is a 'terror of the Same', lives in which we no longer pursue knowledge, insight and experience but are instead reduced to the echo chambers and illusory encounters offered by social media. In extreme cases, this feeling of disorientation and senselessness is compensated through self-harm, or even harming others through acts of terrorism. Byung-Chul Han argues that our times are characterized not by external repression but by an internal depression, whereby the destructive pressure comes not from the Other but from the self. It is only by returning to a society of listeners and lovers, by acknowledging and desiring the Other, that we can seek to overcome the isolation and suffering caused by this crushing process of total assimilation.

Byung-Chul Han

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Byung-Chul Han (Seoul, South Korea, 1959) studied Philosophy at the University of Freiburg and German Literature and Theology at the University of Munich. In 1994, he earned his doctorate from the first of these universities with a thesis on Martin Heidegger. After his habilitation, he taught philosophy at the University of Basel, from 2010 he was a professor of philosophy and media theory at the Karlsruhe College of Design, and since 2012 he has been a professor of Philosophy and Cultural Studies at the Berlin University of the Arts. He is the author of more than a dozen titles, most of which have been translated into Spanish by Herder Editorial.

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