In The Agony of Eros (2017), Byung-Chul Han suggests, “Thinking demands calm. Thinking is an expedition into quietness”. Han, a Korean-born philosopher based in Germany, has emerged as one of Europe’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. MADRID (AP) — Philosopher Byung-Chul Han was awarded Spain's 2025 Princess of Asturias Prize for Humanities for his writings on ...

In an earlier age, writes Byung-Chul Han in his short book The Burnout Society, we lived in a world of "hospitals, madhouses, prisons." What has replaced these? "Fitness studios." There is a touch of ...

Byung-Chul Han, trans. from the German by Daniel Steuer, illus. by Anselm Kiefer. Polity, $19.95 (112p) ISBN 978-1-5095-6519-1 In this soulful meditation, philosopher Han (The Crisis of Narration) ...

MADRID — Philosopher Byung-Chul Han was awarded Spain's 2025 Princess of Asturias Prize for Humanities for his writings on the ills of digital technology and contemporary capitalism, prize organizers ...