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"The Burnout Society" / Author: [Germany] Han Bingzhe Publisher: CITIC Publishing Group Producer: Jianshichengbang
"The Burnout Society" / Author: [Germany] Han Bingzhe Publisher: CITIC Publishing Group Producer: Jianshichengbang
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Introduction · · · · · ·
The negative society has disappeared, replaced by a society full of positivity.
Starting from this paradigm shift, Han Bingzhe shows the pathological forms of today's society, including mental illnesses such as depression, attention deficit disorder, and burnout. They are not infectious diseases, but obstructive diseases, not caused by negative, immunological others, but from excessive positivity.
Therefore, all immunological prevention and resistance measures are ineffective. Han's discussion ends with a vision of a society that he deliberately gives the ambiguous name of "burnout society." In it, life becomes survival, survival leads to a fanatical worship of health, and health brings disease and death.
Without the negativity of death, life itself becomes rigid and becomes death.
An important work that provides a diagnosis of our current era of globalization.
About the Author · · · · · ·
Byung-Chul Han
A German thinker of the new generation. Born in Seoul, South Korea in 1959, he studied metallurgy in Korea in the 1980s, and then traveled across the ocean to Germany to study philosophy, German literature and Catholic theology. He studied in Freiburg and Munich, and received his doctorate from the University of Freiburg in 1994 with a thesis on Heidegger. In 2000, he taught at the University of Basel in Switzerland, in 2010 at the University of Architecture and Arts in Karlsruhe, and since 2012 at the University of the Arts in Berlin. His main research areas are ethics, social philosophy, phenomenology, cultural philosophy, aesthetics, religion, media theory, etc. from the 18th to 20th centuries. His works have been translated into more than a dozen languages. The Spanish newspaper El País praised him as "a rising star in the German philosophical world."
The fresh writing style, clear thoughts, deep insights, precise and sharp arguments all make Han Bingzhe's analysis and criticism of the human spiritual condition in the digital media age particularly important and inspiring.
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