Byung-Chul Han: The Spirit of Hope, Gebunden
The Spirit of Hope
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- Translation:
- Daniel Steuer
- Publisher:
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd, 09/2024
- Binding:
- Gebunden
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9781509565191
- Item number:
- 11901681
- Volume:
- 111 Pages
- Weight:
- 283 g
- Format:
- 217 x 147 mm
- Thickness:
- 18 mm
- Release date:
- 27.9.2024
- Note
-
Caution: Product is not in German language
Blurb
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 future. Preoccupied with crisis management, life becomes a matter of survival.
But it is precisely at such moments of fear and despair that hope arises like a phoenix from the ashes. Only hope can give us back a life that is more than mere survival. Fear isolates people and closes them off from one another; hope, by contrast, unites people and forms communities. It opens up a meaningful horizon that re-invigorates and inspires life. It nurtures fantasy and enables us to think about what is yet to come. It makes action possible because it infuses our world with purpose and meaning. Hope is the spring that liberates us from our collective despair and gives us a future.
In this short essay on hope, Byung-Chul Han gives us the perfect antidote to the climate of fear that pervades our world.
Biography (Byung-Chul Han)
Byung-Chul Han studierte in Freiburg i. Br. und München Philosophie, Deutsche Literatur und Katholische Theologie. Er wurde 1994 promoviert und habilitierte sich 2000. Seither ist er Privatdozent am Philosophischen Seminar der Universität Basel.
