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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31,65

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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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16,77

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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 :  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 :  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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