The Disappearance of Rituals (inbunden)
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Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
186
Utgivningsdatum
2020-09-04
Förlag
Polity Press
Översättare
Daniel Steuer
Illustrationer
Black & white illustrations
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211 x 140 x 15 mm
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218 g
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1
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447:B&W 5.5 x 8.5 in or 216 x 140 mm (Demy 8vo) Case Laminate on White w/Matte Lam
ISBN
9781509542758

The Disappearance of Rituals

A Topology of the Present

av Byung-Chul Han
Inbunden,  Engelska, 2020-09-04
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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, where the loss of the symbolic structures inherent in ritual behaviour has led to overdependence on the contingent to steer identity. Avoiding saccharine nostalgia for the rituals of the past, Han provides a genealogy of their disappearance as a means of diagnosing the pathologies of the present. He juxtaposes a community without communication where the intensity of togetherness in silent recognition provides structure and meaning to todays communication without community, which does away with collective feelings and leaves individuals exposed to exploitation and manipulation by neoliberal psycho-politics. The community that is invoked everywhere today is an atrophied and commoditized community that lacks the symbolic power to bind people together. For Han, it is only the mutual praxis of recognition borne by the ritualistic sharing of the symbolic between members of a community which creates the footholds of objectivity allowing us to make sense of time. This new book by one of the most creative cultural theorists writing today will be of interest to a wide readership.
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Byung-Chul Han's new book challenges the reader to go far beyond the worn-out critique of neoliberalism. On the one side, there is the progressive replacement of substance through communication, painted as a road to existential perdition; it contrasts, on the other side, with the utopian view of a return towards the security of rituals in their form and appearance. This reversal of long-established thought is expressed in a compressed and energetic language that reads like a manifesto. Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Stanford University The kind of book that leads one to rethink our standard narratives of history and to see our society and era in a fresh light. Steven Mintz, Inside Higher Ed

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Byung-Chul Han is a Korean-born Professor of Philosophy and Cultural Studies who teaches at the University of the Arts (UdK) in Berlin. He is the author of more than 20 books including The Scent of Time, Saving Beauty and The Burnout Society.

Innehållsförteckning

Preliminary Remark vi 1. The Compulsion of Production 1 2. The Compulsion of Authenticity 16 3. Rituals of Closure 27 4. Festivals and Religion 36 5. A Game of Life and Death 47 6. The End of History 56 7 The Empire of Signs 60 8. From Duelling to Drone Wars 69 9. From Myth to Dataism 76 10. From Seduction to Porn 84 Notes 90 Bibliography 99

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