Byung-Chul Han: Vita Contemplativa
Vita Contemplativa
Buch
- In Praise of Inactivity
- Übersetzung: Daniel Steuer
- Polity Press, 01/2024
- Einband: Gebunden
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9781509558001
- Bestellnummer: 11502188
- Umfang: 128 Seiten
- Gewicht: 284 g
- Maße: 216 x 142 mm
- Stärke: 15 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 18.1.2024
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
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Klappentext
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 consumption. We have forgotten that it is precisely inactivity, which does not produce anything, that represents an intense and radiant form of life.For Byung-Chul Han, inactivity constitutes the human. Without moments of pause or hesitation, acting deteriorates into blind action and reaction. When life follows the rule of stimulus-response and need-satisfaction, it atrophies into pure survival: naked biological life. If we lose the ability to be inactive, we begin to resemble machines that simply function. True life begins when concern for survival, for the exigencies of mere life, ends. The ultimate purpose of all human endeavour is inactivity.
In a beautifully crafted ode to the art of being still, Han shows that the current crisis in our society calls for a very different way of life: one based on the vita contemplativa. He pleads for bringing our ceaseless activities to a stop and making room for the magic that happens in between. Life receives its radiance only from inactivity.
Biografie (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. Byung-Chul Han
Vita Contemplativa
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