Byung-Chul Han
The Work Camp Within | Han on Achievement and Fatigue
On Byung-Chul Han
Byung-Chul Han traces how freedom, productivity, and positivity turn inward, leaving the achievement subject exhausted by its own demands.
Portrait: Byung-Chul Han at the Prix Bristol des Lumières, 2015. ActuaLitté, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped, via Wikimedia Commons.
Philosopherborn 1959
Byung-Chul Han
Byung-Chul Han is a Korean-born philosopher who has spent most of his career in Germany, writing short, sharp books about how we live now. In The Burnout Society and its successors he argues that we are no longer exploited by masters but by ourselves, worn out by the freedom to achieve, and that we have lost the arts of rest, ritual, and contemplation.
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